Betty Coles's first reading was Beatrix Potter
, then Lewis CarrollAlice in Wonderland and E. Nesbit
, whose Bastable stories she read over and over again. Though her parents were not bookish people she progressed at...
Education
Rose Tremain
At a younger age than this, Rosie did not care for Lewis Carroll
's Alice; she found her bossy and her predicaments baffling. Formative authors in her childhood included A. A. Milne
(less the stories...
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...
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...
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...
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...