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 |
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. 365-6 |
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. 5 |
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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