Lewis Carroll
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Standard Name: Carroll, Lewis
Birth Name: Charles Dodgson
Pseudonym: Lewis Carroll
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 |
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 |
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...
Building item
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...
Writing climate item
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...
Writing climate item
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...
Writing climate item
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.