Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Penguin) - Lewis Carroll [31]
11 See Jacqueline Rose, The Case of Peter Pan: or the Impossibility of Children’s Fiction, London, 1984.
12 ‘Today’s wonder-world needs Alice’, The New York Times Magazine, 1 July 1962; reprinted in W. H. Auden, Forewords and Afterwords, ed Edward Mendel-son, 1973, p. 291.
13 ‘The books are so frankly about growing up that there is no great discovery in translating them into Freudian terms; it seems only the proper exegesis of a classic even when it would be a shock to the author’. Empson, ‘The Child as Swain’, Some Versions of Pastoral, p. 203.
14 Virginia Woolf, ‘Lewis Carroll’, The Collected Essays, ed. Leonard Woolf vol 1, London, 1966, pp. 254ff.
15 See Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Princeton, 1979, for an historical account of the dominance of the mirror as a philosophical paradigm of truth. See also George Pitcher, ‘Wittgenstein, Nonsense, and Lewis Carroll’, The Massachusetts Review, VI (1965) for a discussion of Wittgenstein’s reading of Carroll; Peter Heath ed, The Philosopher’s Alice, London, 1974; Jean-Jacques Lecercle, The Philosophy of Nonsense: The Intuitions of Victorian Nonsense Literature, London, 1994.
16 ‘Pig and Pepper’, AAIW, chapter 6.
17 ‘Queen Alice’, TLG, chapter 9.
18 Virginia Woolf, ‘Lewis Carroll’, The Moment and Other Essays, London, 1952.
19 Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll, London, 1898. For a selection of the many Lives of Dodgson, see under Biographical in Further Reading.
20 Collingwood, Life, p. 11.
21 Collingwood, Life, p. 11.
22 Isa Bowman, Lewis Carroll as I Knew Him, London, 1899. Reprinted, New York, 1972, p. 3.
23 Virginia Woolf, ‘Lewis Carroll’, Collected Essays, vol 1.
24 Quoted in Bowman, Lewis Carroll as I Knew Him, p. 60.
25 ‘Faces in the Fire’, Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898), The Complete Works, ed. Alexander Woollcott, London, 1939, reprinted Harmondsworth, 1988, p. 875.
26 ‘Solitude’, Three Sunsets and Other Poems, Complete Works, p. 861.
27 Quoted in Collingwood, Life, p. 30.
28 Donald Thomas, Lewis Carroll: A Portrait with Background, London, 1996, p. 60.
29 For an account of the ‘Rectory Umbrella’, see Collingwood, Life, chapter 1. For reproductions of these family magazines, see Lewis Carroll, The Rectory Umbrella and Mischmasch, ed. Florence Milner, London, 1932; and the facsimile The Rectory Magazine edited by Lewis Carroll, Austin, 1975.
30 The Diaries of Lewis Carroll, 2 vols, ed. R. L. Green, London, 1953, vol 1, p. 70.
31 ‘Solitude’, Complete Works, p. 860.
32 The Letters of Lewis Carroll,2 vols, ed. Morton N. Cohen, with the assistance of R. L. Green, London, 1979, vol 2, p. 947.
33 Diaries, vol 1, p. 79.
34 Entry for 25 April 1856. Diaries, vol 1, p. 83.
35 Diaries, vol 1, p. 83.
36 Entry of 5 June. Diaries, vol 1, p. 86.
37 Michael Bakewell, Lewis Carroll: A Biography, London, 1996, p. 104.
38 Stuart Dodgson Collingwood quotes from the missing diaries frequently in Chapters 2 and 3 of his Life. The editor of the Diaries, R. L. Green, gives the family’s account of their loss on pp. xi–xiii of vol. 1. Cohen discusses this in Lewis Carroll: A Biography, London, 1995, pp. 46–7 and p. 100.
39 Diary entries for 27, 28 and 29 June, have been torn out. See Cohen, Lewis Carroll: A Biography p 100.
40 Entry for 5 December 1866. Diaries, vol 1, p. 208.
41 Complete Works, p. 1038.
42 Letter to Alice (Liddell) Hargreaves, 1 March 1885. Letters, vol 1, p. 561.
43 Thomas, Lewis Carroll: A Portrait, p. 149.
44 ‘Of being photographed he had a horror.’ Bowman, Lewis Carroll as I Knew Him, p. 14.
45 Diaries, vol 1, p. 86.
46 Diaries, vol 1, p. 13.
47 Complete Works, pp. 861–3.
48 Cohen, Lewis Carroll: A Biography, pp. 203–5.
49 Letter to Lady John Manners of August 1878, quoted in Cohen, Lewis Carroll: A Biography, p. 101.
50 Elizabeth Sewell argues that true nonsense depends