Alice in Wonderland/Thru looking Glass and C of L49 (tangentially)

[Mark Kohut]

Wm Empson, scholar-critic of (some) legend, who someone on the p-list
---me?---thought OBA might have absorbed back in the day (for some P Korrespondence)
wrote that:

The Alice books are all about 'growing up" obviously and like many----this from his book
Some Versions of Pastoral---starts in a happy land/place where the character then goes through
many adventures to learn the ironic ways of the world and 'grow" in understanding. 

C of L49, a version of pastoral?...From Kinneret thru all that learning to await "understanding".?