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Education | Elizabeth Taylor | 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... |
Education | Jan Morris | Morris's mother, who liked to have several books in different languages on the go at the same time, taught eclectic reading to her child. Both Lewis CarrollAlice in Wonderland and Mark TwainHuckleberry Finn made a great impression... |
Education | Enid Blyton | Enid later recalled in vivid detail the first school she went to, Tresco, which was run by the Misses Read in their private house. She recalled, too, the most important texts among her early reading:... |
Education | Leonora Carrington | One of LC
's first teachers was her nanny, Mary Kavanagh
, who tutored Leonora and told her ghost stories. When LC
was a child she was also exposed to stories by Beatrix Potter
,... |
Education | Agatha Christie | By the time Agatha was born, Clara Miller
believed that girls ought not to learn to read before the age of eight. Defiantly, Agatha taught herself to read at five. She eagerly devoured Lewis Carroll |
Education | Carol Ann Duffy | Formative books for the child CAD
were Lewis Carroll
's Alice in Wonderland (a gift from her grandfather when she was seven), Richmal Crompton
's William books (I was William the anarchist and rebel... |
Education | Susan Hill | Although not a Catholic, she went to a convent school in Scarborough, where she set out to enlighten her school friends (who thought babies were grown from a packet in hospital, like plants from... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Menella Bute Smedley | According to scholar Andrew Sanders
in the ODNB, she was also a cousin, through her mother, of the Dodgson family, and by passing on some writing by the future Lewis Carroll
to her cousin... |
Friends, Associates | Rhoda Broughton | The sisters were in general popular in Oxford society, but Rhoda, although at first she dined regularly at the table of scholar Benjamin Jowett
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Friends, Associates | Christina Rossetti | Her literary connections expanded further with the publication of Goblin Market and Other Poems. Dora Greenwell
approached her effusively by letter and Lewis Carroll
was keen to photograph her and her family. In 1865... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Luce Irigaray | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Theodora Benson | While the title alludes to Lewis Carroll
, the chapters are headed with quotations which begin with Shakespeare
and Verlaine
, move through such less usual sources as Punch and Rupert Brooke
, and conclude... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Rossetti | Arthur Munby
read with strong admiration & pleasure Hudson, Derek, and Arthur Joseph Munby. Munby, Man of Two Worlds. J. Murray, 1972. 119 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Rossetti | Indebted, as the Athenæum remarked, to Lewis Carroll
's Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Speaking Likenesses features fantastic creatures and happenings that mirror the internal audience's characters, often their faults. |