News

It was very nice to be one of his little girls. — Winifred Holiday This is the year of Lewis Carroll’s little girls. They are the subjects of three recent or forthcoming films, a Marilyn ...
For Lewis Carroll, a whimsical creature we’ll never know. In praise of Lewis Carroll’s often-overlooked classic, the nonsense poem “The Hunting of the Snark.” August 22, 2024 ...
Here are five odd facts about Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), including his ... Alice as a model to show the contrast of her dressed in Victorian finery next to a photo of her dressed as a beggar child.
But I must confess to being somewhat shaken in this long-cherished belief recently on meeting an old Oxford friend and contemporary — also a child friend of Lewis Carroll — who was quite ...
“The popular Victorian image of Lewis Carroll was of a sort of child-loving saint,” says Brooker. “It is an image which Dodgson himself helped to create, and it suited Victorian attitudes.” ...
A shy 33-year-old with a stammer, he hid behind the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. “Please never praise me at all,” he wrote to a child fan. “I just feel myself a trustee, that is all.” ...