The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (rev. C. L. Dodgson)
1865
The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (rev. C. L. Dodgson)
1865
Written by the author's nephew just months after Lewis Carroll's death, this definitive Victorian biography pulls back the curtain on the man behind the magic. Stuart Collingwood draws on family papers, personal letters, and intimate memories to trace Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's journey from lonely boy in rural Daresbury to the Oxford mathematics lecturer who would revolutionize children's literature. The book reveals the tensions that defined Carroll's existence: his brilliant academic mind against his diffident social manner, his genuine love for children set against the scandal that shadowed his relationships, his sly humor against his rigid Victorian propriety. We see the quiet theologian, the meticulous logician, the photographer obsessed with capturing childhood's fleeting grace. Most valuably, Carroll's own letters sparkle across these pages, revealing the wit and warmth that made him beloved to the real Alice Liddell and countless other children. This is an indispensable portrait of the century's most paradoxical literary genius.
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“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).””
— Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?””
— Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
“I wonder if the snow the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.””
— Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
“I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then””
— Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
“Why it's simply impassible!Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?Door: No, I do mean impassible. Nothing's impossible!””
— Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
“No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.””
— Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
“Curiouser and curiouser.””
— Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
“Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!"Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.””
— Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
“Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.””
— Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
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