Lewis Carroll

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Standard Name: Carroll, Lewis
Birth Name: Charles Dodgson
Pseudonym: Lewis Carroll

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Intertextuality and Influence Christina Rossetti
Arthur Munby read with strong admiration & pleasure
qtd. in
Hudson, Derek, and Arthur Joseph Munby. Munby, Man of Two Worlds. J. Murray, 1972.
119
a review copy before publication, remembering having heard Gabriel read some of these poems from manuscript years before. His diary pronounced them vigorous, sensuous, keenly observant...
Literary responses Louisa May Alcott
Among a chorus of praise from those who read LMA when they were young, Edith Wharton stands out as harder to please. In her memoir A Backward Glance, 1934, she recalls how her mother...
Literary responses Augusta Webster
The book could hardly have been written, said the Athenæum, unless Kingsley 's Water Babies and Lewis Carroll 's Alice in Wonderland had preceded it. It pronounced the book's much ado without nothing is...
Literary responses Jean Ingelow
U. C. Knoepflmacher notes the extent to which Mopsa has been misread . . . as a slavish dependence on Carroll 'sAlice in Wonderland, and seeks to counter this by offering a sustained...
Literary responses E. Nesbit
In 1915 EN was granted a Civil List pension of sixty pounds a year. She was pleased but not overwhelmed at this honour, and thought it ought not to have been taxed.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987.
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She evidently...
Occupation Ethel M. Arnold
In addition to women's political progress, EA's second tour featured talks about a range of subjects: Lewis Carroll , Kenneth Grahame , and Edward Lear ; the historians J. R. Green , Edward Augustus Freeman
politics Frances Power Cobbe
FPC was a fervent anti-vivisectionist. She followed the issue of experiments on animals closely from early in her career. By 1874 she was petitioning the RSPCA to pursue legislation restricting vivisection: Robert Browning , Thomas Carlyle
Reception Ethel M. Arnold
Both in her own time and the twenty-first century, EA is largely known as an Arnold, the granddaughter of Dr Thomas Arnold of Rugby , niece of Matthew Arnold , and sister of Mrs Humphry Ward
Textual Features Emily Jane Pfeiffer
Literary biographer Kathleen Hickok notes that the tale is full of oblique eroticism, fairy episodes, and Romantic imagery, with a realistic frame tale of female innocence, modern marriage, and disillusionment with eros, pleasure, and idleness...
Textual Features Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
These delightful tales feature several fairies. The first is tiny: The tip of her chin / Seem'd the point of a pin, / And her eye-lashes nothing at all.
Wolferstan, Elizabeth Pipe. Fairy Tales in Verse. Baldwin and Cradock; T. G. Lomax, 1830.
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She has a tough gown...
Textual Features Jean Ingelow
In the fantastic style rather like that of Lewis Carroll (whose first Alice book appeared in 1865), JI abandons her formerly didactic tone and presents a whimsical world of imagination inhabited by fairies, gypsies, and...
Textual Features Marina Warner
She begins with the Enlightenment thinking which displaced the ideas of Aristotle . Her first chapter is entitled, surprisingly, Wax; the others are Air, Clouds, Light, Shadow, Mirror, Ghost...
Textual Features Naomi Royde-Smith
NRS begins with Sherwood's work as a children's writer, and the sway held by her Evangelical texts from about 1812 to 1850. She credits Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with outdating the didactic...
Textual Production Clemence Dane
CD collaborated with Richard Addinsell , who wrote the music, on an adaptation of Lewis Carroll 's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research, 1982.
10: 133
Textual Production Carol Ann Duffy
At about seven CAD enjoyed Carroll 's Alice in Wonderland so much that she began writing a continuation as soon as she finished the book. When she was eleven or twelve an inspirational English teacher...

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