Post by poohbear on Mar 8, 2010 21:08:32 GMT -5
I've been a lurker here a while but having just read this book, I felt impelled to say "hurrah!".
This is such a fantastic book! Jenny Woolf totally rewrites the picture of Lewis Carroll and at last makes him seem a real, living human being, and she does it by unearthing a mass of forgotten information. She has discovered not just his bank account, which is impressive enough, but mountains of information about the true nature of his relationship with the real Alice in Wonderland, which was apparently very different from the legend. She also delves into thre forgotten area of Carroll's friendships with women, that were far mor prevalent than any biographer has ever suggested. And she unearths numerous mysteries too. Not least the curious business of 'Forster', and the strange affair of the missing diaries.
Ms Woolf deserves huge credit for being the first to discover all this and not least for finally nailing the pedophile nonsense, but I confess I was left wondering why no one had ever found any of this out before?
This is such a fantastic book! Jenny Woolf totally rewrites the picture of Lewis Carroll and at last makes him seem a real, living human being, and she does it by unearthing a mass of forgotten information. She has discovered not just his bank account, which is impressive enough, but mountains of information about the true nature of his relationship with the real Alice in Wonderland, which was apparently very different from the legend. She also delves into thre forgotten area of Carroll's friendships with women, that were far mor prevalent than any biographer has ever suggested. And she unearths numerous mysteries too. Not least the curious business of 'Forster', and the strange affair of the missing diaries.
Ms Woolf deserves huge credit for being the first to discover all this and not least for finally nailing the pedophile nonsense, but I confess I was left wondering why no one had ever found any of this out before?
