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ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND by the Rev. C. L. Dodgson. 90 pages. University Microfilms...
...summer's day in 1862, the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson of Christ Church, Oxford, went punting on the Thames with three charming little girls named Alice, Lorena, and Edith Liddell. Alice as usual asked him to tell her a story, and since he was in great form that day she begged him to write the story down. "And so, to please a child I love," he later explained, "I printed in manuscript, and illustrated with my own crude designs, this little book." "This little book," entitled Alice's Adventures under Ground, was the first draft of a later...
...than 561 memorabilia on or by the enigmatic Oxford don. The Alice adventures and The Hunting of the Snark have given the language a host of full-blooded words such as chortle, galumphing and burble. Learned Carrollian treatises include farfetched Freudian analyses, one of which purports to show that Dodgson suffered from a "reversal of unresolved Oedipal attachment." In the untidy, inventive White Knight, who of all Carroll's characters is the only one who shows affection for Alice, scholars see a self-caricature. Some commentators think that the battle of his Lion and Unicorn was intended...
...Snark ("They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care:/They pursued it with forks and hope;") or playing croquet with flamingos as mallets and hedgehogs as balls, the moral of the mythology is that all pretensions and dogmas turn, like the Red Queen, to pasteboard. As Dodgson wrote to one of his young friends: "If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things." No Boys. Charles Dodgson found many ways...
...According to one legend (which the author denied), Queen Victoria was enchanted by Alice, and having discovered Lewis Carroll's identity, ordered his publisher to send her a copy of his next book. She is said to have received Dodgson's Condensation of Determinants...