The Mystery of Lewis Carroll: Discovering the Whimsical, Thoughtful, and Sometimes Lonely Man Who Created Alice in Wonderland
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A new biography of Lewis Carroll, just in time for the release of Tim Burton’s all-star Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll was brilliant, secretive and self contradictory. He reveled in double meanings and puzzles, in his fiction and his life. Jenny Woolf’s The Mystery of Lewis Carroll shines a new light on the creator of Alice In Wonderland and brings to life this fascinating, but sometimes exasperating human being whom some have tried to hide. Using rarely-seen and recently discovered sources, such as Carroll’s accounts ledger and unpublished correspondence with the “real” Alice’s family, Woolf sets Lewis Carroll firmly in the context of the English Victorian age and answers many intriguing questions about the man who wrote the Alice books, such as: • Was it Alice or her older sister that caused him to break with the Liddell family? • How true is the gossip about pedophilia and certain adult women that followed him? • How true is the “romantic secret” which many think ruined Carroll’s personal life? • Who caused Carroll major financial trouble and why did Carroll successfully conceal that person’s identity and actions? Woolf answers these and other questions to bring readers yet another look at one of the most elusive English writers the world has known.The Washington Post - Michael DirdaJenny Woolf's engaging biography…eschews the minutiae and factual richness of [Morton N.] Cohen's magisterial biography of 1995. Her aim is to present a convincing portrait, and she writes with affection as well as admiration for the man revealed by her research.
Foreword Edward Wakeling Wakeling, EdwardA Personal Introduction 11 'My Father and Mother were honest though poor ...': Family 112 'You can do arithmetic, I trust?': Oxford Life 393 'Nose in the Middle, Mouth Under': The Human Body 674 'This Strange Wild Man from Other Lands': Love and Sex 955 'Children Are Three-Fourths of my Life': Children 1276 'Child of the Pure Unclouded Brow': Alice 1537 'That Awful Mystery': Religion and the Supernatural 1818 'And Would You Be a Poet?': Literature and Storytelling 2139 '... took the Camera of Rosewood': Photography 23910 'He Offered Large Discount, he Offered a Cheque': Money 265A Personal Conclusion 289Appendix Report of Dr Yvonne Hart on Carroll's neurological symptoms 298Select Bibliography 300Notes 303Index 318
