Please can anyone direct me to a brief biographical details of Edwin Dodgson - CLD's youngest brother? In articular where is he buried? Many thanks Ian...
EDWIN HERON DODGSON, born June 30, 1846, Darlington. Died November 2, 1918, at the Chestnuts, Guildford. He is buried in Mount Cemetery, Guildford He spent...
Dear Fellow Members of the Lewis Carroll Discussion Group The newly published The Importance of Being Earnest Revisited: A Novel may be of interest to many...
Christopher Nassaar
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Jan 3, 2006 12:48 pm
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Alice,Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell is here in a weeks worth of reading. As this is an On Line Encyclopedia it can...
The idea of Lewis Carroll studies has been applied to the Beatles for over 10 years now and suddenly theres more Beatles experts than ever not even born when...
Dear all, I've found in this site (http://www.library.ubc
ca/spcoll/alice/#Parodies%20and) that there's been a "Pinocchio's Adventures
in Wonderland....
How long I wonder before some academic will claim Lewis Carroll never existed? Consider we now have 12% of America believing the Moon landing of 1969 was a...
Richard, considering that it wasn't too long ago when most people thought the world was flat and in my lifetime there was a substantial number of folk who ...
... world ... majority ... believe ... their ... got ... they ... Dodgson ... That's an interesting idea. I'll probably think about that a dozen times today. ...
Jim, it is much more difficult to put Lewis Carroll into a slot than we think it is anyone else we know about e.g. Oscar Wilde. I think I can be sure that I ...
The more I know of both of them the less sense it seems to make. Perhaps it ... Keith, my feeling is this: Keep 'em guessing, Mr Dodgson, keep 'em guessing to...
Perhaps that someone whose background is more towards the "serious" side would not continue to be respected if linked as a writer of fiction? His nom de plume...
Ralph, the nom de plume was adopted in the mid 1850's as you said. Dodgson did not set out to become a writer as an occupation - I would think only a few...
On what grounds do you claim his decisions were 'bad'.... unless he was compelled or thwarted, they were his own decisions and he is the best (perhaps the...
Alan Clarke
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Alan, bad from the point of view of anyone who has ambition or who can understand the steps needed to further a career. He did not achieve any standing in ...
Joe, he could have continued to occupy his rooms, for which he paid a rent, without looking after the canteen. He could have also enjoyed all the other...
On Friday, January 13, 2006, at 11:35 AM, Keith Wright wrote: leave Ch.Ch., which was a very dubious institution despite his attempts to justify it, Ok Keith,...
Ann, the best book I have found on the subject is Mark Pattison's book, published after his death in the 1885 but only slightly toned down so his publisher...
Keith, Thank you for your patient explanation and the information. University Library here does not have the book in its collection, but is doing a search to...
Ann, apart from the bits about Oxford you'll also get an insight into life in Yorkshire for a boy who was quite priveledged and who grew up only 15 miles from...
... Hey. I believe Victorian Oxford did look kindly on applications from the offspring of alumni or friends of the fellows - as I understand some American...
Keith, I agree that your advice to CLD – to give up Ch. Ch. and produce more writing of the quality of ‘Alice’ would have been excellent – if it had...
Hi all, I think that we often forget in these debates that Lewis Carroll was not a child author who, from time to time, show some interest in mathematics. At...
Hello I've been wondering why Skeffington Dodgson and Edwin Dodgson both had the middle name 'Heron'. Can anyone enlighten me please. Thank you, Ian...
Darien, buying one's way in via the public schools is alive and well! However, this is off topic so I'll drop further comment on it. When you say 'kindly' I...
Joe, quite right he didn't take the path I would have expected. He didn't build on what he had established as a writer. It's as if J.K.Rowling had written...
I'm not sure I can see him as a mathematician who wrote a few books. I can see he would have thought that was right but as a mathematician he did not produce...
Ian, it's nothing to do with the bird of the same name! George Heron was a friend of CLD's father and also the person who baptised CLD in July 1832. He lived...
