Lewis Carroll

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

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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...
Textual Production Penelope Shuttle
On her seventieth birthday PS published a volume of poetry titled from a surreal line by Lewis Carroll about joining in a quadrille: Will you Walk a little Faster?, dedicated to my family and...
Textual Production Frances Horovitz
Greg Gatanby included FH 's poem Invocation in his Whales: A Celebration, 1983. This anthology comprises excerpts from literature, legends, myths, religions, and poetry from around the world. Among others included are Jonathan Swift
Textual Production Githa Sowerby
Before she turned her talents to drama, GS published eleven children's books, most of them in verse. All were illustrated by her sister, Millicent Sowerby , who also illustrated editions of Lewis Carroll 's Alice's...
Textual Production Elspeth Huxley
EH published Forks and Hope, the result of a proposal from the Daily Telegraph two years earlier for articles, and of a final visit to Kenya during her mother 's domicile there.
The zeugma...
Textual Production Noel Streatfeild
In 1961 NS had the honour of appearing in Bodley Head 's series of monographs on children's writers, where she joined such household names as Mary Louisa Molesworth , Juliana Horatia Ewing , Lewis Carroll
Textual Production Ngaio Marsh
She pursued other interests in other mysteries, like Spinsters in Jeopardy (US publication late 1953; British publication early 1954, which drags Alleyn from an innocent family holiday to investigate events involving an esoteric religious...
Textual Production Charlotte Yonge
Its full title was The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Younger Members of the English Church. Its circulation ran at about 1,500. It had no staff, no office, no fixed day of publication...
Textual Production Elizabeth Bowen
She had intended the title-piece to be an unconventional autobiography, focused on the relationship between art and life,
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf.
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and eschewing chronological sequence. She began working on it in summer 1969, and took it with...
Textual Production Flannery O'Connor
At about nine Mary Flannery O'Connor gathered a small group of friends to whom, in a wooden play-house among the chickens, she would read from her pages and pages of handwritten stories about a family...
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.
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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 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 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.
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She has a tough gown...

Timeline

After 31 March 1796: William Beckford burlesqued women writers...

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After 31 March 1796

William Beckford burlesqued women writers and attacked reactionary government in his novelModern Novel Writing, or the Elegant Enthusiast; and Interesting Emotions of Arabella Bloomville. A Rhapsodical Romance; Interspersed with Poetry, published as Lady Harriet Marlow.

4 March 1852: Alice Liddell, the original recipient of...

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4 March 1852

Alice Liddell , the original recipient of Lewis Carroll 's Alice works, was born on this date.

1865: Lewis Carroll published Alice's Adventures...

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1865

Lewis Carroll published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

May 1866: Aunt Judy's Magazine began publication, founded...

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May 1866

Aunt Judy's Magazine began publication, founded by Margaret (Mrs Alfred) Gatty .

By 16 December 1871: Lewis Carroll published Through the Looking-Glass...

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By 16 December 1871

Lewis Carroll published Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (generally known as Alice Through the Looking-Glass).

By 8 April 1876: Lewis Carroll published his most popular...

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By 8 April 1876

Lewis Carroll published his most popular nonsense-poem, The Hunting of the Snark.

1882: The Society for Psychical Research was founded...

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1882

The Society for Psychical Research was founded with the purpose of conducting objective scientific research into supernatural phenomena such as clairvoyance, telepathy, and mediumship.

1924: Una Ashworth Taylor's sketches of her family...

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1924

Una Ashworth Taylor 's sketches of her family and personal friends, including Lewis Carroll , was titled Guests and Memories. Annals of a Seaside Villa.

Texts

Gardner, Martin, and Lewis Carroll. “Introduction and Notes”. The Annotated Alice, Wings Books, 1960.