Hi Keith, Well as you probably know I've written fairly directly on Carroll and logic in various forums. I have suggested that Carroll's main purpose in life...
Jenny, Maybe the answer to this lies in the fact that he volunteered to perform parochial duties to FD Maurice? Perhaps it wasn't the fact of parochial duties...
John, no I didn't know you had written on logic in various forums! The written or spoken language can be misunderstood and CLD used this fact often to mislead...
... perform ... parochial ... would ... similar ... John, That makes it even more odd. Did he specify what duties he was prepared to do for Maurice that he...
Jenny, if it is any help when I was looking through the records at Northallerton record office I saw that CLD performed burials and christenings at Croft ...
I have a feeling the 'not wanting to do parochial duties' story may have been a bit of an excuse. too. As Jenny says, he seems to have told a couple of...
... Sorry, I'm at work and in a rush so can't check refs, but didn't he write in his diary shortly after his ordination that "Until I can control myself...
Mike, whilst I can see where your points are coming from they do paint a negative picture of CLD. Isn't it more likely that being a logical person, and a...
... Yes, he did indeed say something like this - probably more than once. In the early 1860s he was continually confiding such allusive expressions of guilt to...
K raised the question of Liddell's handling of Dodgson's priesthood crisis in her book, which I think was the first time it had been discussed specifically....
Mike, It does seem rather odd that, if Dodgson were not entitled to his position - lacking the necessary priestly qualifications - nobody noticed until...
Joe, I don't think - to the best of my knowledge - the Dean had any discretion to overwrite this rule. The statute itself was very particular, and Dodgson...
Joe, you are being misled - plenty of people knew including Liddell. All his mates knew ~ Vere Bayne, Liddon etc. it's been discussed as long as I can recall...
Mike, several errors in your last posting. Liddell was sent to Ch.Ch. with a reform agenda and he was an expert at getting his own way if he wanted to do...
I think the image of Dodgson as out of step with the 'new ways' and constantly outvoted at meetings is just another bit of myth. In fact in the early 1860s...
The question of the priesthood was being discussed, but Liddell's odd behaviour wasn't. It went unnoticed until recent times. cheers Mike ... K's book ... ...
Mike, how can it be a myth when the man himself actually acknowledged that this was the case? He was in the forefront of the student movement as you say but ...
Hi there I'm writing a short piece on Carroll for a magazine and urgently need an image or two. Does anyone have access to a copyright-free pic that we could...
I'm trying to write my research paper on L.C. I was wondering if anyone knew if there was any truth in the pedophile and jack the ripper allegations? if not,...
not to be rude, but you can't have done much research at all if you don't know the answer to those questions. Try looking on our links page for good sites...
This pedo one must be the most tired one of all.As for the Ripper this is not even worth trying to contradict. The only "truth" is what the dummies allege ...
Hi Matt - there are so many other areas of CLD's works to research - and I'm talking about his works here, rather than his life, which has fairly much been...
Kate, I think it would be fairer to say that the 'myth' (or myths) have been done to death, rather than the life. In fact I'd say in many ways, Dodgson's life,...
Good point Mike - yes. Somehow, for me, life and myth are synonymous in CLD's case. I'd like to take up the challenge. . . ... From: "mikeindex2001"...
Mike, Could you direct me to the source of the quotation you refer to where CLD says that "teaching maths is incompatible with being a clergyman"? It is quite...
Jenny, CLD assisted Maurice with Communion on several occasions. Maurice was curate of St. Peter's Chapel, Vere St. (in the parish of St. Marylebone) which...
