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Author Woolf, Jenny.

Title The mystery of Lewis Carroll : discovering the whimsical, thoughtful, and sometimes lonely man who created Alice in Wonderland / Jenny Woolf ; [foreword by Edward Wakeling].

Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Press, [2010]
©2010

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  B CARROLL    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  B CARROLL    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B CARROLL LEWIS W    Check Shelf
Edition First U.S. edition.
Description x, 326 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [300]-317) and index.
Contents 'My father and mother were honest though poor-- ' : family -- 'You can do arithmetic, I trust?' : Oxford life -- 'Nose in the middle, mouth under' : the human body -- 'This strange wild man from other lands' : love and sex -- 'Children are three-fourths of my life' : children -- 'Child of the pure unclouded brow' : Alice -- 'That awful mystery' : religion and the supernatural -- 'And would you be a poet?' : literature and storytelling -- ' -- took the Camera of Rosewood' : photography -- 'He offered large discount, he offered a cheque' : money -- Appendix. Report of Dr Yvonne Hart on Carroll's neurological symptoms.
Summary A portrait of the author of "Alice in Wonderland" analyzes contradictory aspects of his character, tapping recently discovered sources to set Carroll's life in the context of Victorian England, and assesses his financial difficulties and his relationship with the real Alice.
Subject Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
Mathematics teachers -- England -- Oxford -- Biography.
Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Photographers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Children's stories -- Authorship.
Oxford (England) -- Biography.
ISBN 9780312612986: $27.99
0312612982
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