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on playful detachment from feeling (‘insulation against emotion and dream’), and that when ‘the heart is affected’, as in Lear’s lyrics and Carroll’s Hunting of the Snark, the genre collapses, The Field of Nonsense, London, 1952, p. 135 and pp. 149–62. This is highly suggestive, but confuses method and function.

51 Introduction to Pillow Problems Thought Out During Sleepless Nights,1893. Quoted in Florence Becker Lennon, The Life of Lewis Carroll, New York, 1972, pp. 108–9.

52 Bowman, Lewis Carroll as I Knew Him, p. 37, p. 9.

53 William Tuckwell, Reminiscences of Oxford, Oxford, 1900, pp. 161–2.

54 Bowman, Lewis Carroll as I Knew Him, p. 21. See also the numerous recollections by other children in Morton N. Cohen ed. Lewis Carroll: Interviews and Recollections, London, 1989.

55 Letters, vol 1, p. 561.

56 Letters, vol 1, p. 457.

57 See for example ‘The Stage and the Spirit of Reverence’, The Theatre, June 1888. This is reprinted in The Complete Works, pp. 1102–10.

58 Entries for 20 August, 27 September 1877. Diaries, vol 1, pp. 365–6.

59 Letter to Kathleen Eschwege, 24 October 1879. Letters, vol 1, p. 351.

60 Quoted in Bakewell, Lewis Carroll: A Biography, p. 345.

61 Warren Weaver, quoted in Thomas Lewis Carroll: A Portrait, p. 212.

62 See the ‘Miscellany’ section of The Complete Works for these, pp. 1009 ff.

63 Thomas, Lewis Carroll: A Portrait, p. 223.

64 Preface to Sylvie and Bruno, Complete Works, p. 257.

65 Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, Complete Works, p. 674.

66 Letters, vol 2, p. 887.

67 For a fuller discussion, see Cohen, Lewis Carroll: A Biography, p. 188.

68 Thomas, Lewis Carroll: A Portrait, p. 352.

69 Letters, vol 2, p. 983.

70 From a letter from Canon Duckworth to Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, quoted in The Lewis Carroll Picture Book, ed. Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, London, 1889, pp. 358–60.

71 Collingwood, Life, p. 96.

72 ‘Alice’s Recollections of Carrollian Days, as Told to her Son’, Cornhill Magazine,73, July 1932, 1–12, reprinted in Cohen, Interviews and Recollections, pp. 86–7.

73 Cohen, Interviews and Recollections, pp. 86–7.

74 Cohen, Interviews and Recollections, p. 84.

75 ‘“Alice” on the Stage’, The Theatre,1887. See pp. 293—8.

76 Diaries, vol 1, p. 181.

77 Entry dated 10 February 1863, quoted in Diaries, vol 1, pp. 181–.2

78 Diaries, vol 1, p. 185.

79 Diaries, vol 1, pp. 185–6.

80 Diaries, vol 1, p. 188.

81 Diaries, vol 1, pp. 176 and 184.

82 Diaries, vol 1, p. 208.

83 Diaries, vol 1, pp. 23–31.

84 Letters, vol 1, p. 62.

85 Quoted in Cohen, Interviews and Recollections, pp. 14–50.

86 Diaries, vol 1, p. 212.

87 Diaries, vol 1, p. 236.

88 Lewis Carroll and the House of Macmillan, ed. Morton N. Cohen and Anita Gandolfo, Cambridge, 1987, p. 44.

89 Lewis Carroll and the House of Macmillan, p. 48.

90 ‘Alice’s Recollections of Carrollian Days’, in Cohen, Interviews and Recollections, p. 84.

91 From a letter to The Times,15 January 1932, in Cohen, Interviews and Recollections, pp. 196–7.

92 Cohen, Interviews and Recollections, pp. 197–8.

93 Lewis Carroll and the House of Macmillan, p. 84.

94 Letter of 24 January 1868, Lewis Carroll and the House of Macmillan, p. 58.

95 Diaries, vol 1, p. 275.

96 Letter of 9 December 1868, Lewis Carroll and the House of Macmillan, p. 73.

97 Lewis Carroll and the House of Macmillan, p. 85.

98 Diaries, vol 2, pp. 294–5.

99 Quoted in Collingwood, Life, pp. 142–3.

100 For a fuller account of Alice Liddell, see Anne Clark, The Real Alice: Lewis Carroll’s Dream Child, London, 1981, and Colin Gordon, Beyond the Looking-Glass: Reflections of Alice and her Family, London, 1982.

101 Elizabeth Bishop, ‘In The Waiting Room’, The Complete Poems 1927–1979, London, 1983.

102 ‘The Garden of Live Flowers’, TLG, chapter 2.

103 In ‘“Alice” on the Stage’. See p. 296.

104 Bowman, Lewis Carroll as I Knew Him, p. 73.

105 J. O. Halliwell, collector of Popular Rhymes & Nursery Tales of England (1849), a book owned by Dodgson, calls his prefatory essay ‘Nursery Antiquities’. He argues there that ‘the humble chap-book is found to be descended from medieval

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