Comments on: Lewis Carroll and Little Girls (again!) http://www.nonsenselit.org/wordpress/archives/2004/09/15/lewis-carroll-and-little-girls-again/ Edward Lear and Nonsense News Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:57:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: A Blog of Bosh » Blog Archive » Carroll and Money http://www.nonsenselit.org/wordpress/archives/2004/09/15/lewis-carroll-and-little-girls-again/#comment-7123 A Blog of Bosh » Blog Archive » Carroll and Money Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:54:59 +0000 http://www.nonsenselit.org/wordpress/index.php?p=234#comment-7123 [...] ed by the Victorian sex trade” and is therefore relevant to the ongoing war over his sexual preferences (see also): “these donations were not made for show, but were kept ent [...] [...] ed by the Victorian sex trade” and is therefore relevant to the ongoing war over his sexual preferences (see also): “these donations were not made for show, but were kept ent [...]

]]> By: Richard Astley-Clemas http://www.nonsenselit.org/wordpress/archives/2004/09/15/lewis-carroll-and-little-girls-again/#comment-129 Richard Astley-Clemas Fri, 08 Oct 2004 17:29:16 +0000 http://www.nonsenselit.org/wordpress/index.php?p=234#comment-129 By applying logic to this idea the so called Revisionists are creating what is no more than Lewis Carroll fiction the same as Richard Wallace who in all seriousness tries to convince readers that Carroll was Jack The Ripper. Morton Cohen mentions a belief that Queen Victoria really wrote the books and yet another one claims Alice Liddell did and that she was actually adopted!!!. Being a scholar is no excuse as I don't think Martin Gardner was one yet his Annotated Alice will tell you all you need to know. Its also worth noting that no mention is made of the Leach book in The Alice Companion. I've never read it nor would want to do -the excerpts on the LFLC together with the Customer Reviews on Amazon were enough It just makes you wonder what wacky theory comes up next By applying logic to this idea the so called Revisionists are creating what is no more than Lewis Carroll fiction the same as Richard Wallace who in all seriousness tries to convince readers that Carroll was Jack The Ripper.
Morton Cohen mentions a belief that Queen Victoria really wrote the books and yet another one claims Alice Liddell did and that she was actually adopted!!!.
Being a scholar is no excuse as I don’t think Martin Gardner was one yet his Annotated Alice will tell you all you need to know.
Its also worth noting that no mention is made of the Leach book in The Alice Companion. I’ve never read it nor would want to do -the excerpts on the LFLC together with the Customer Reviews on Amazon were enough
It just makes you wonder what wacky theory comes up next

]]> By: Mike Leach http://www.nonsenselit.org/wordpress/archives/2004/09/15/lewis-carroll-and-little-girls-again/#comment-46 Mike Leach Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:16:20 +0000 http://www.nonsenselit.org/wordpress/index.php?p=234#comment-46 I think this is a very fair analysis of the situation to date - except for one thing. Cohen's claims about the numbers and content of the letters Carroll wrote to children - which you take at face value - are actually not true at all. Indeed the numbers of letters to woman friends in the published 'Letters' - edited by Cohen himself - outnumber those to pre-pubescent children by 3-2 in volume I and 7-1 in volume II. And, despite Cohen's claim, this is woman*friends* - excluding family, business acquaintances and the mothers of child-friends. This supports the suggestion, gleaned as well from other sources, that Carroll's relationship with the female sex was much more complex than usually portrayed in biographies and the popular media. For a more detailed analysis you can go to www.lookingforlewiscarroll.com/letterstofemales.html BTW I wonder if you'd like a link from 'LfLC' to this blog? Mike I think this is a very fair analysis of the situation to date - except for one thing. Cohen’s claims about the numbers and content of the letters Carroll wrote to children - which you take at face value - are actually not true at all.

Indeed the numbers of letters to woman friends in the published ‘Letters’ - edited by Cohen himself - outnumber those to pre-pubescent children by 3-2 in volume I and 7-1 in volume II.

And, despite Cohen’s claim, this is woman*friends* - excluding family, business acquaintances and the mothers of child-friends.

This supports the suggestion, gleaned as well from other sources, that Carroll’s relationship with the female sex was much more complex than usually portrayed in biographies and the popular media.

For a more detailed analysis you can go to http://www.lookingforlewiscarroll.com/letterstofemales.html

BTW I wonder if you’d like a link from ‘LfLC’ to this blog?
Mike

]]> By: A Blog of Bosh » Carroll’s emotional and social life http://www.nonsenselit.org/wordpress/archives/2004/09/15/lewis-carroll-and-little-girls-again/#comment-48 A Blog of Bosh » Carroll’s emotional and social life Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.nonsenselit.org/wordpress/index.php?p=234#comment-48 [...] e time, I understand it does - quite coincidentally - have some comment to make on some of <a href="http://www.nonsenselit.org/wordpress/index.php?p=234">Cohen’s claims in his recent article</a>. Comment [...] [...] e time, I understand it does - quite coincidentally - have some comment to make on some of Cohen’s claims in his recent article. Comment [...]

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