Lewis Carroll

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

Although not a Catholic, she went to a convent school in Scarborough, where she set out to enlighten her school friends (who thought babies were grown from a packet in hospital, like plants from...

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...

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...

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.

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

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