In the later years CLD did spend a lot of time on logic, arguing sometimes with the Professor of Logic but certainly teaching logic to girls either at a school...
Dear Jerry Thanks for your interest. Sorry not to have replied sooner – our online computer has been under dust sheets while decorating is in process. As...
Mike, Keith, Joe Soap, Pleasanceone and everyone else Many thanks to all of you who replied to my original questions. When I joined this list, and posted my...
Dear Members, I'm a student of english literature and I'm writing a thesis about Lewis Carroll, mainly on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It's really a...
... I can send you lo-res jpegs of quite a few comics that are either adaptations or pastiches of ALICE or else inspired by the books. If these are of any use...
Mike, As someone who knows August Imholtz through the LC weekends I find it hard to believe that he would write anything which was ill informed and could be ...
Yes its real enough.You get documentation as well as Cerificate and its registered in the British Library.Later I named 3 trees one of them after Alice and...
Jeremy, I think you will find that this group is more open as it is moderated from the UK where Charles Dodgson originated. The groups moderated from the USA...
... moderated from the UK where Charles Dodgson originated. The groups moderated from the USA tend to be moderated by people of fixed ideas who venerate the...
Jim, it is a fact that political correctness in the wide sense is increasing everywhere not just in the USA. My Dickens group example is however in stark...
Hi all Re-reading Life And Letters prior to Morton and then Leach, two things (so far) puzzle me: 1) What exactly is (or was) a 'studentship'? 2) Can someone...
Jeremy, A Studentship at Christ Church was (and is) the equivalent of a Fellowship at other colleges. Dodgson could have remained a Student of Christ Church...
Dodgson was in holy orders in that he became and remained a Deacon - he did not proceed to priests orders and that was what was unusual. A J Clarke ... From:...
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in the Alice books. I have only read Gardeners, Annotated Alice a couple of times, but i have read all of Shakespeare and Plato. For me, Shakespeare has used...
The matter of Dodgson's studentship came up on the 21st October 1862 when he wrote in his diary:- 'Oct. 21 (Tu.) Called on the Dean to ask him if I was in any...
Keith, I can't really agree that either Dodgson or the Dean were acting dishonestly. Dodgson failed to obey the rules and Liddell failed to enforce them....
Joe, Dodgson was dishonest in that meeting with Liddell in 1862 - he even lied to himself in his diary. He was not a stupid man and so he knew his agreeing...
Keith, I agree that Dodgson appears to us to have been inconsistent in his rules of behaviour as applied to himself and others. I suppose that most of us are!...
Keith, Sorry not to have replied sooner - terribly busy at present. I'm afraid I just don't have time to get into a detailed analysis just now, but in a few...
Joe, re CLD's argument with Wilfred, it is in Green's and the latest editions of the diaries for Monday the 2nd February 1857. 'Feb. 2 (M) . . . . . . . . In...
Even though Dean Liddell was breaking the rules by allowing Dodgson to retain his Studentship whilst not proceeding to being ordained as a priest, was this...
Deb, all questions I have tried to get sorted and failed to get any answers. Things were not as well regulated in those days as they are now and Liddell was in...
Thank you for that information, Keith; very interesting - and germane to the subject under discussion. I agree that CLD seems to have come round to his...
Joe, since the matter never went to the electors then I think we only have CLD's diary as evidence. It's not likely that the diary is fabricated so all we...
Keith, I was thinking of "The New Belfry of Christ Church, Oxford" (1872). Hence my use of "House" (for which I apologise) which Dodgson uses throughout the...
Joe, he certainly influenced a lot of young ladies - all the ones who wrote anything about him after he died were complimentary about the effect he had had on...
