Good morning: Just a question, did Lewis Carroll ever had the chance to meet William Morris at Oxford University? Bernice California Central Coast, US ... Do...
I've not come across any references to a meeting between the two although they shared many mutual friendships. Keith W ... From: Bernice Marin To:...
Keith Wright
keith@...
Jun 1, 2004 6:17 pm
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In a message dated 6/1/2004 1:53:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, oceanic20002002@... writes: Good morning: Just a question, did Lewis Carroll ever had the...
Jlsperanza@...
Jun 1, 2004 6:38 pm
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BEYOND the Moon The Trades - Adair Village,OR,USA Lewis Carroll's ability to intoxicate readers has always stemmed from his preoccupation with...
Bernice mentioned Morris and it set me wondering how CLD moved through society seemingly having friends and acquaintances from every spectrum of Victorian...
Keith Wright
keith@...
Jun 4, 2004 8:57 pm
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... through society seemingly having friends and acquaintances from every spectrum of Victorian society yet seemed to incur the wrath of nobody - as far as I...
I think it's important to remember how much we don't know and probably never will know. Even Collingwood said that LC tended to get over emphatic and worked...
Mike, whilst I see your point in the first paragraph I think it goes much deeper than that. Absence of evidence is a difficult one to resolve. However, think...
Keith Wright
keith@...
Jun 5, 2004 5:05 pm
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Hi Keith - not boring at all. A very insightful mail and extremely interesting. He was a man who asked questions, and respected people who were honest enough...
Kate, whilst I agree with you that he found Stuart somewhat lacking he was probably wise enough to know that if anyone was going to put pen to paper after he...
Keith Wright
keith@...
Jun 6, 2004 1:44 pm
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... deeper ... We know ... clue ... expected to be ... that he ... debated as ... has been ... the wrong ... One can make a case that he was eventually not...
Jim, I wasn't saying that CLD was in favour of evolution but he would know where the church stood and as such would be expected to oppose it - certainly around...
Keith Wright
keith@...
Jun 6, 2004 2:41 pm
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... I was reading V. Noakes's bio, _Edward Lear: the life of a wanderer_ (HMCO 1986) on the Carroll/Lear interface -- or the lack of it at the 'inter-textual' ...
Jlsperanza@...
Jun 6, 2004 4:38 pm
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I think you have to recognise that Lear (1812 - 1888) was a generation ahead of CLD. Lear was writing his nonsense verse before CLD was at Ch.Ch. but whether...
Keith Wright
keith@...
Jun 6, 2004 6:04 pm
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Hi y'all, Someone in the family here in Australia said something about relationship to lewis carroll. some really CLEAR family tree please. Kern...
Actually, the dates of publication should be: Lear, A Book of Nonsense: 1846, 1855, 1861 Carroll, Alice 1, 1865 Lear, Nonsense Songs, 1871 Lear, More Nonsense,...
I decided to check the dates on Carroll's limericks and was surprised to find that the early "Melodies" (p. 702 of my Nonesuch edition) are dated 1845, one...
Thanks Keith - plenty of food for thought there. I actually don't know why you don't write a bio of Carroll - you have so much factual information there that...
And here's one for someone - Three Voices. The umbrella here is a weapon. However, in Misch-Masch, there is a picture of a little dude sheltering under an...
A great-Aunt (grandfathers sister) has apparently done some family history researching, so who ever has branching genealogy from the core Dodgsons..... Kern....
Kate, interesting! I always saw that umbrella in that sketch as an inclusion device i.e. under this umbrella. Not as a protective device. Keith W ... From:...
Keith Wright
keith@...
Jun 7, 2004 1:55 pm
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Kate, it's not sensational enough for a new bio. just a lot of boring facts. I'm the one who points out that Dogson could not have been Jack the Ripper as he...
Keith Wright
keith@...
Jun 7, 2004 1:55 pm
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Just ran across an ad for this talk in my local paper... Hicklebee's (http://www.hicklebees.com) is a wonderful children's bookstore located in the downtown...
Hi all, I was just sent a link to this movie by a friend. Besides the fact that she says "I HIGHLY recommend it. It's absolutely fascinating!! It'll change...
I must have way too much time on my hands. I just uploaded a few megs of scans from various and sundry LC books (a few rogues crept in, and I'll deal with...
The only commentary I know of from LC on inherited wealth is in 'Sylvie & Bruno' where he strongly defends it and criticises the 'socialist' analysis very...
Anyone notice that this movie has been scheduled in '42' cinemas on the west coast? Someone let Edward Wakeling know immediately! Mike ... that she ... change ...
and when you do ask him to say why 42 is a special number in itself and for CLD! Keith W ... From: "mikeindex2001" <alphabeticalorder@...> To:...
Keith Wright
keith@...
Jun 8, 2004 4:11 am
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Mike, not being a fan of S&B I'd not read this or if I had it hadn't registered. I don't think we can blame CLD for the 'dubious logic' as he was a man of his...
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