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106 ‘The Elections to the Hebdomadal Council’, 1866–8, The Lewis Carroll Picture Book, pp. 88–9.
107 The Works of Lewis Carroll, ed. R. L. Green, Feltham, 1965, p. 950.
108 ‘“Alice” on the Stage’.
109 ‘Since the pleasure from jokes has the same origin – a core of verbal pleasure and pleasure from nonsense, and a causing of pleasure in the lifting of inhibitions or in the relief of psychical expenditure – this similar relation to inhibition explains the internal kinship between the naive and jokes.’ Freud, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (1905), trans. James Strachey, London, 1960, p. 185.
110 Letters, vol 1, p. 146.
111 Letters, vol 1, pp. 146–7.
112 ‘No word has a meaning inseparably attached to it; a word means what the speaker means by it, and what the hearer understands by it, and that is all. I meet a friend and say ‘Good morning!’ Harmless words enough, one would think. Yet possibly, in some language he and I have never heard, these words may convey horrid and loathsome ideas. But are we responsible for this?’ ‘The Stage and the Spirit of Reverence’ (1887), Works of Lewis Carroll, p. 1105.
113 Letters, vol 1, p. 147.
114 Works of Lewis Carroll, p. 1075 ff.
115 Dodgson never refers to his fellow nonsense writer Edward Lear, but it is hard to think he was unaware of him, when literary acquaintances like Tennyson and Ruskin admired the children’s writing of both.
116 11 September 1891, Diaries, vol 2, p. 486.
FURTHER READING
Works of Lewis Carroll
The Diaries of Lewis Carroll, ed. Roger Lancelyn Green, London: Cassell & Co., 1953. 2 vols.
The Letters of Lewis Carroll, ed. Morton N. Cohen, with the assistance of Roger Lancelyn Green, London: Macmillan, 1979. 2 vols.
Lewis Carroll and the House of Macmillan, ed. Morton N. Cohen and Anita Gandolfo, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
The Complete Works, ed. Alexander Woollcott, London: The Nonesuch Press, 1939. Reprinted, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1988.
The Annotated Alice, ed. Martin Gardner, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965. Revised edition, 1970.
Lewis Carroll, Oeuvres, ed. Jean Gattégno, with Véronique Béghain, Alexander Révérend and Jean-Pierre Richard, and translations by Philippe Blanchard, Fanny Deleuze, Jean Gattégno, Henri Parisot, Alexander Révérend and Jean-Pierre Richard, Paris: Gallimard, 1990. 2 vols.
Donald J. Gray ed., Alice in Wonderland: Authoritative Texts, Backgrounds, Essays in Criticism, New York: W.W. Norton, 1971.
Roger Lancelyn Green ed., Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Oxford: The World’s Classics, 1982.
Alice’s Adventures under Ground. Facsimile of the author’s manuscript book, with a new Introduction by Martin Gardner, New York: Dover Publications, 1965.
Alice’s Adventures under Ground, Foreword by Mary Jean St Clair, London: Pavilion Books in association with the British Library, 1995.
Martin Gardner ed., Lewis Carroll: The Wasp in a Wig: A ‘Suppressed’ Episode of Through the Looking-Glass, with a Preface, Introduction and Notes by Martin Gardner. London: Macmillan, 1977.
The Lewis Carroll Picture Book, Diversions and Digressions of Lewis Carroll, ed. Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. Reprinted as The Unknown Lewis Carroll: Eight Major Works and Many Minor Works. New York: Dover, 1961.
William Warren Bartley, III ed., Lewis Carroll’s Symbolic Logic, Brighton: Harvester Press, 1977.
The Rectory Magazine, edited by Lewis Carroll, Austin & London: University of Texas Press, 1975. A facsimile of one of the private Dodgson family magazines.
Biographical
Michael Bakewell, Lewis Carroll: A Biography, London: Heinemann, 1996.
Isa Bowman, The Story of Lewis Carroll, London: J. H. Dent & Co, 1899. Reprinted as Lewis Carroll as I Knew Him, with a new introduction by Morton N. Cohen,