In The Mystery of Lewis Carroll, Jenny Woolf brings to life the
brilliant, secretive, and self-contradictory creator of Alice in
Wonderland, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a.k.a. Lewis Carroll.
Reveling in double meanings and puzzles, in his fiction and his
life, Carroll always--at least in part--seemed hidden, unknowable.
Woolf uses rarely-seen and recently discovered sources like
Carroll's private bank account records, letters from the family of
the "real" Alice Liddell and unpublished correspondence with
Carroll's own relatives. In shining new light upon Carroll, Woolf
sets this perennially fascinating man firmly in the context of the
English Victorian age and tackles many of the questions that have
persisted throughout the years.
- Was it Alice or her older sister that caused a coolness between
Carroll and the Liddell family?
- How true is the gossip both about about pedophilia and certain
adult women that became attached to him?
- What could be the "romantic secret" which many think ruined
Carroll's personal life?
- Who caused Carroll major financial trouble, and why have this
person's identity and actions remained unknown till now?
Woolf discards the myths and lets us see Carroll as he truly was: a
brilliant product of the Victorian Age, and a genius whose famous
stories continue to fascinate readers almost 150 years after their
initial publication.
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