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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

EH published Forks and Hope, the result of a proposal from the Daily Telegraph two years earlier for articles, and of a final visit to Kenya during her mother 's domicile there.

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

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...

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...

She had intended the title-piece to be an unconventional autobiography, focused on the relationship between art and life, and eschewing chronological sequence. She began working on it in summer 1969, and took it with...