I recently reread Alice (‘s Adventures in Wonderland) and Alice (Through the Looking-Glass) and noticed two very different approaches to the structure of the narratives. On the one hand, Alice (‘s Adventures in Wonderland) began as a story made up by Charles Dodgson to entertain the three Liddell sisters while they rowed the river on […]
Here is a picture of a reproduction of a page in a story illustrated and written by the hand of Reverend Charles Dodgson as a Christmas present for Alice Liddell. Alice had insisted that he write down this particular story, the one about another Alice and the Queen of Hearts and the White Rabbit and […]
The Reverend Dodgson’s introduction to his Hiawatha satire, with the matching of the metre used by Henry in his poem, in his long Longfellow poem: In an age of imitation, I can claim no special merit for this slight attempt at doing what is known to be so easy. Any fairly practised writer, with the […]
This is the beginning of the little book C. L. Dodgson designed and wrote in his own hand for Alice Liddell and presented to her one Christmas. It is a story he made up on a summer outing with the Liddell children and was urged to write down by Alice. He called it ‘Alice’s Adventures […]
Here is Mr. C. L. Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll. In my story ZOM FALBU, I pay homage with anagrams to Mr. Dodgson and Mr. Baum, dreamer of Oz. Zom Falbu, the time-traveling shapeshiftress, is an anagram of L. F. Baum Oz. Scong Lodd, time-traveling shapeshifter, is an anagram of C. L. Dodgson. There […]
