The Mystery of Lewis Carroll

Understanding the Author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

• Author(s): Jenny Woolf,
• Publisher: Haus
• Pages: 326
• ISBN_10: 1906598681
  ISBN_13: 9781906598686
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh ,

Description:... The more closely Lewis Carroll is studied, the more he seems to slide quietly away. The elusive author of Alice in Wonderland has been portrayed in innumerable ways over the last hundred years. He has been posthumously psychoanalysed, condemned and criticized for his supposed sexual perversions and drug use. He has been pitied for his apparent repressions, his hidden tragedies and his emotional frustrations. Carroll shunned publicity and became increasingly guarded as the years went by his family descendents kept a tight hold or destroyed many major documents about his personal life.