Lewis Carroll

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.

Among a chorus of praise from those who read LMA when they were young, Edith Wharton stands out as harder to please. In her memoir A Backward Glance, 1934, she recalls how her mother...

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...

U. C. Knoepflmacher notes the extent to which Mopsa has been misread . . . as a slavish dependence on Carroll 'sAlice in Wonderland, and seeks to counter this by offering a sustained...

In 1915 EN was granted a Civil List pension of sixty pounds a year. She was pleased but not overwhelmed at this honour, and thought it ought not to have been taxed. She evidently...

In addition to women's political progress, EA's second tour featured talks about a range of subjects: Lewis Carroll , Kenneth Grahame , and Edward Lear ; the historians J. R. Green , Edward Augustus Freeman

FPC was a fervent anti-vivisectionist. She followed the issue of experiments on animals closely from early in her career. By 1874 she was petitioning the RSPCA to pursue legislation restricting vivisection: Robert Browning , Thomas Carlyle

Both in her own time and the twenty-first century, EA is largely known as an Arnold, the granddaughter of Dr Thomas Arnold of Rugby , niece of Matthew Arnold , and sister of Mrs Humphry Ward

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. She has a tough gown...

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...

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...

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...

Literary biographer Kathleen Hickok notes that the tale is full of oblique eroticism, fairy episodes, and Romantic imagery, with a realistic frame tale of female innocence, modern marriage, and disillusionment with eros, pleasure, and idleness...

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

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...