NP: Rev Dodgson...

[Glenn Scheper]

The story that Carroll related extemporaneously on that famous occasion was 
eventually written down, at Alice's request, as Alice's Adventures Under Ground. 
Pavilion Books, in 1985, published a facsimile of the manuscript with the 
author's own illustrations, which shows that his calligraphy was much better 
than his drawing, and yet how exactly he visualised the characters and scenes 
that Tenniel later copied. Carroll changed the title for publication by 
Macmillan when he considered that the original one might suggest an introduction 
to coal-mining.
  -- http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_199708/ai_n8763179

When Nabokov translated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland into Russian in 1923 he 
must have admired the book or at least enjoyed it. By 1966, however, he had come 
to speak scathingly of its author, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the 
Victorian Christ Church instructor in mathematics and logic: 'I always call him 
Lewis Carroll Carroll,' the White Russian lepidopterist said, `because he was 
the first Humbert Humbert.'
  -- http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_199708/ai_n8763179

Though surrounded by many adoring sisters and brothers, Charles often played 
alone, and some of his games were idiosyncratic. He kept snails and toads as 
pets and contrived `civilised warfare' among earth-worms by encasing them in 
piping as protective body-armour.
  -- http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_199708/ai_n8763179

The Rev. Mr. Dodgson loved romance but all he did about it was write a sad 
little satire about a young man who, on seeing a sign reading "Shop of 
Romance-ment," joyfully became an apprentice only to find that the sign really 
read "Shop of Roman Cement."
  -- http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,775532,00.html

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Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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