Lewis Carroll

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

Connections

Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
Literary responses Louisa May Alcott
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...
Friends, Associates Ethel M. Arnold
EA, with her sister Julia , was one of Lewis Carroll ’s child-friends. He helped her through a difficult childhood and the death of her mother, and she remembered him fondly in later years. Carroll...
Occupation Ethel M. Arnold
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
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ethel M. Arnold
EA ’s strength as a writer was in her faculty for criticism. Some of the more prominent novels she reviewed for the Manchester Guardian include George Meredith ’s The Amazing Marriage and Henry James ’s...
Reception Ethel M. Arnold
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
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...
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:...
Textual Production Elizabeth Bowen
She had intended the title-piece to be an unconventional autobiography, focused on the relationship between art and life,
qtd. in
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.
288
and eschewing chronological sequence. She began working on it in summer 1969, and took it with...
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 ,
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(29 November 1940): 5
, was then ostracized in some...
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
politics Frances Power Cobbe
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
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, 1982.
10: 133
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...
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...

Timeline

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

Women writers item

After 31 March 1796

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

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.
Gardner, Martin, and Lewis Carroll. “Introduction and Notes”. The Annotated Alice, Wings Books, 1960.
96

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

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1865

Lewis Carroll published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
280

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 .
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
33
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
under Ewing

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).
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2303 (1871): 787

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

Writing climate item

By 8 April 1876

Lewis Carroll published his most popular nonsense-poem, The Hunting of the Snark.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2528 (1876): 495
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.

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.
Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
195-7
Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-Century England. Virago, 1989.
102
Porter, Katherine H. Through a Glass Darkly: Spiritualism in the Browning Circle. Octagon, 1972.
125
Gauld, Alan. A History of Hypnotism. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
389-90
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997.
143
“Society for Psychical Research”. Monstrous.com: Ghosts.

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

Women writers item

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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

Texts

Carroll, Lewis, and Sir John Tenniel. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Macmillan, 1865.
Gardner, Martin, and Lewis Carroll. “Introduction and Notes”. The Annotated Alice, Wings Books, 1960.
Carroll, Lewis, and Sir John Tenniel. Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. Macmillan, 1872.