Lewis Carroll

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...

This book is made up of discrete pieces published in various books and journals between 1973 and 1976. They include critique of intellectual fathers like Freud and Lacan , analysis of the relationship between language...

She pursued other interests in other mysteries, like Spinsters in Jeopardy (US publication late 1953; British publication early 1954, which drags Alleyn from an innocent family holiday to investigate events involving an esoteric religious...

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...

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...

At about nine Mary Flannery O'Connor gathered a small group of friends to whom, in a wooden play-house among the chickens, she would read from her pages and pages of handwritten stories about a family...

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...

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...

Arthur Munby read with strong admiration & pleasure a review copy before publication, remembering having heard Gabriel read some of these poems from manuscript years before. His diary pronounced them vigorous, sensuous, keenly observant...

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.

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...

On her seventieth birthday PS published a volume of poetry titled from a surreal line by Lewis Carroll about joining in a quadrille: Will you Walk a little Faster?, dedicated to my family and...

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...

Before she turned her talents to drama, GS published eleven children's books, most of them in verse. All were illustrated by her sister, Millicent Sowerby , who also illustrated editions of Lewis Carroll 's Alice's...

In 1961 NS had the honour of appearing in Bodley Head 's series of monographs on children's writers, where she joined such household names as Mary Louisa Molesworth , Juliana Horatia Ewing , Lewis Carroll