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Carroll birthplace put in trust’s care
THE Cheshire birthplace of one of England’s finest authors and academics has been handed over to the protection of the National Trust.Lewis Carroll was born and raised at Daresbury Parsonage, which lies in a corner of a field two miles outside the village.The double-fronted building had a lobby, parlour, study, [...]

Carroll’s photos hint at deeper childhood wonderland
Lewis Carroll is best known as the author of the Alice in Wonderland books, but the shy, stammering Oxford mathematics professor, whose real name was Charles Dodgson, was as much an accomplished photographer as he was a writer. ‘Dreaming in Pictures,’ now on view at the Art Institute, presents [...]

Nailing Spike [Milligan]
The combination of Spike, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine, with help from deep-dish subversives emerging from their cocoons in the BBC, created an explosion of verbal anarchy that nevertheless flowed from a tradition, combining music hall with Lewis Carroll and the nonsense prose and poetry of Edward Lear. Carpenter does not [...]

Anyone for Tennyson?
The Queen’s residence at Osbourne helped make the Isle of Wight fashionable among the cream of Victorian society: Charles Darwin, William Makepeace Thackeray, C. F. Watts and Julia Margaret Cameron, among others, all moved to Freshwater.Of these, Tennyson was particularly close to Cameron and made frequent visits to Dimbola Lodge (her home), which [...]

Photos found in cathedral could be by Alice author
UNSMILING portraits of Victorian clergymen found in Ripon Cathedral appeared to offer little excitement.But with them was a note written 20 years ago suggesting the photographs could have been taken by the Alice in Wonderland author Lewis Carroll, who had a long association with the cathedral.Yorkshire Post [...]

Queen of hearts and minds
The fascination with Lewis Carroll’s Alice books endures because of their use of language, writes AS Byatt, and because he created the least sentimental child character in children’s literature Guardian Unlimited Books | Review

Carroll’s Artistry and Our Obsessions
THE man who wrote “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking-Glass” was an equally brilliant photographer. But in modern times Lewis Carroll’s achievements have been overshadowed by the widely held conviction that his primary inspiration, literary and artistic, was an unsavory obsession with little girls.New York Times, August 11, 2002

In the eye of the beholder / Lewis Carroll photography show raises difficult aesthetic questions
The exhibition asks us to set aside cultural reference points such as the paintings of Balthus (1908-2001), Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita,” the photographs of Sally Mann and the profit system’s address to children as a mass market precociously attuned to sexual innuendo. [...]

Mirva Saukkola: The Eden of Dreams and the Nonsense Land
Subtitled “Characteristics of the British Golden Age Children’s Fiction in the Finnish Children’s Fantasy Literature of the 1950s”, this academic dissertation (May 2001, University of Helsinki, Institute for Art Research, Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts) has some references to Lear.

Introduction to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland By Will SelfBloomsburyMagazine.com - Ezine