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Author Woolf, Jenny.

Title The mystery of Lewis Carroll : discovering the whimsical, thoughtful and sometimes lonely man who created Alice in Wonderland / Jenny Woolf ; [foreword by Edward Wakeling].

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 2010.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  PR4612 .W66 2010    Available  ---
Edition 1st U.S. ed.
Description x, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-317) and index.
Summary A portrait of the author of "Alice in Wonderland" analyzes contradictory aspects of his character, tapping recently discovered sources to set Carroll's life in the context of Victorian England, and assesses his financial difficulties and his relationship with the real Alice.
Contents "My father and mother were honest though poor--" : family -- "You can do arithmetic, I trust?" : Oxford life -- "Nose in the middle, mouth under" : the human body -- "This strange wild man from other lands" : love and sex -- "Children are three-fourths of my life" : children -- "Child of the pure unclouded brow" : Alice -- "That awful mystery" : religion and the supernatural -- "And would you be a poet?" : literature and storytelling -- "...took the camera of rosewood" : photography -- "He offered large discount, he offered a cheque" : money -- Appendix. Report of Dr Yvonne Hart on Carroll's neurological symptoms.
Subject Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
Authors, English.
Chronological Term 19th century
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Mathematics teachers -- England -- Oxford -- Biography.
Mathematics teachers.
England -- Oxford.
Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Mathematicians.
Great Britain.
Photographers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Photographers.
Children's stories -- Authorship.
Children's stories -- Authorship.
Oxford (England) -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 9780312612986 : $27.99
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