Still she haunts me: A Novel of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a shy Oxford mathematician, reverend, and pioneering photographer. Under the pen name Lewis Carroll he wrote two stunning classics that liberated children's literature from the constraints of Victorian moralism. But the exact nature of his relationship with Alice Liddell, daughter of the dean of his college, and the young girl who was his muse and subject, remains mysterious. Dodgson met Alice in 1856, when she was almost four years old. Eventually he would capture her in his photographs, and transform the stories he told her into the luminous Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass. Then, suddenly, when Alice was eleven, the Liddell family shut him out, and his relationship with Alice ended abruptly. The pages from Dodgson's diary that may have explained the rift have disappeared. In imagining what might have happened, Katie Roiphe has created a deep, textured portrait of Alice and Dodgson: she changing from an unruly child to a bewitching adolescent, and he, a diffident, neurasthenic adult whose increasing obsession with her almost destroys him. Here, too, is a brilliantly realized cast of characters that surround them: Lorina Liddell, Alice's mother, who loves her daughter even as she envies her youth; Edith Liddell, Alice's resentful little sister; and James Hunt, Dodgson's speech therapist, an island of sanity in Dodgson's increasingly chaotic world.
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Authors
Authors -- Fiction
Biographical fiction
Carroll, Lewis
Carroll, Lewis, -- 1832-1898 -- Fiction
Fiction
Girls
Girls -- Fiction
Hargreaves, Alice Pleasance Liddell
Hargreaves, Alice Pleasance Liddell, -- 1852-1934 -- Fiction
Historical Fiction
Literature
Oxford (England) -- Fiction
Photographers
Photographers -- Fiction
Authors -- Fiction
Biographical fiction
Carroll, Lewis
Carroll, Lewis, -- 1832-1898 -- Fiction
Fiction
Girls
Girls -- Fiction
Hargreaves, Alice Pleasance Liddell
Hargreaves, Alice Pleasance Liddell, -- 1852-1934 -- Fiction
Historical Fiction
Literature
Oxford (England) -- Fiction
Photographers
Photographers -- Fiction
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subject_facet | Authors -- Fiction Biographical fiction Carroll, Lewis, -- 1832-1898 -- Fiction Girls -- Fiction Hargreaves, Alice Pleasance Liddell, -- 1852-1934 -- Fiction Oxford (England) -- Fiction Photographers -- Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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title_full | Still She Haunts Me A Novel of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell Still she haunts me / Katie Roiphe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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title_sub | A Novel of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Authors Carroll, Lewis Fiction Girls Hargreaves, Alice Pleasance Liddell Historical Fiction Literature Photographers |