Comments on: The Mystery of Lewis Carroll: Discovering the Whimsical, Thoughtful, and Sometimes Lonely Man Who Created Alice in Wonderland http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/non-fiction/the-mystery-of-lewis-carroll/ reading material to get excited about Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:08:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Putrid Pete http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/non-fiction/the-mystery-of-lewis-carroll/comment-page-1/#comment-66694 Putrid Pete Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:16:06 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=12466#comment-66694 Why is it likely he died a virgin? Who says there's no evidence he diddled kids? Or anyone else? Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence. Why is it likely he died a virgin? Who says there’s no evidence he diddled kids? Or anyone else? Absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence.

]]> By: Mikeindex http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/non-fiction/the-mystery-of-lewis-carroll/comment-page-1/#comment-65509 Mikeindex Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:57:34 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=12466#comment-65509 If you liked Jenny Woolf's book you might well be interested in Karoline Leach's 'In the Shadow of the Dreamchild' (Peter Owen 1999, extended 2nd edn 2009), which along with the articles of Hugues Lebailly really kicked off the New Carroll Studies movement and exposed the myth-driven nature of LC's popular image. (Leach kicks the Freudian critics' collective arse good and hard too). Steve - Coral Browne is extremely good in 'Dreamchild', and so are the Jim Henson puppets. But don't take it as history. If you liked Jenny Woolf’s book you might well be interested in Karoline Leach’s ‘In the Shadow of the Dreamchild’ (Peter Owen 1999, extended 2nd edn 2009), which along with the articles of Hugues Lebailly really kicked off the New Carroll Studies movement and exposed the myth-driven nature of LC’s popular image. (Leach kicks the Freudian critics’ collective arse good and hard too).

Steve – Coral Browne is extremely good in ‘Dreamchild’, and so are the Jim Henson puppets. But don’t take it as history.

]]> By: Jenny Woolf http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/non-fiction/the-mystery-of-lewis-carroll/comment-page-1/#comment-65394 Jenny Woolf Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:08:19 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=12466#comment-65394 Thanks very much for your review. I just wanted to correct one point of fact, (and that's simply because I'm a nit pickety biographer). There's no evidence that Carroll wrote "ALice's Adventures in Wonderland" FOR Alice Liddell. He was careful to make that clear, just as he also made the point that Alice Liddell wasn't the "Alice" of the stories. As usual nobody took any notice of what he actually said! But to me this is one of the interesting but so far unsolved mysteries of just what was going on. Thanks very much for your review. I just wanted to correct one point of fact, (and that’s simply because I’m a nit pickety biographer). There’s no evidence that Carroll wrote “ALice’s Adventures in Wonderland” FOR Alice Liddell. He was careful to make that clear, just as he also made the point that Alice Liddell wasn’t the “Alice” of the stories. As usual nobody took any notice of what he actually said! But to me this is one of the interesting but so far unsolved mysteries of just what was going on.

]]> By: Steve W http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/non-fiction/the-mystery-of-lewis-carroll/comment-page-1/#comment-65201 Steve W Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:57:46 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=12466#comment-65201 There's a good movie on the Carroll-Liddell relationship from several years ago, called "Dreamchild," which is about her unresolved feelings for him. There’s a good movie on the Carroll-Liddell relationship from several years ago, called “Dreamchild,” which is about her unresolved feelings for him.

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