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   XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: andrew@ilium.invalid   
      
   On 2007-12-11, Francis A. Miniter  wrote:   
   > andrew wrote:   
      
   [...]   
      
   >> I have always had a small issue with this author, not with his   
   >> literature, as he appears to have had a few issues with small   
   >> children. Certainly he was a /very/ unusual man who produced amazing   
   >> literature though but I find it hard to ignore his character.   
      
   [...]   
      
   > Do you have any evidence of inappropriate behaviour?   
      
   As far as a know there was never any /solid/ evidence of Lewis Carroll   
   having an inappropriate relationship with a small child. He certainly   
   showed an extreme interest in young girls and a lack of interest in   
   adult females. His lesser known work is his photography which   
   frequently featured naked and semi-naked girls. And certainly his best   
   relationships were with children and his interest in them failed when   
   they became older.   
      
   Enough there for substantial suspicion, but no direct evidence, but   
   this is not unusual and is frequently seen these days as well. I don't   
   wish it to seem that I /alone/ am accusing Lewis Carroll of such   
   behaviour, this is a stream of research that has been investigated by   
   many people. A quick search through the back pages of the Norton   
   edition of Aloce in Wonderland shows an article by Peter Coveney from   
   which I quote:   
      
   'Dodgson's obsession with little girls was both sexual and sexually   
   morbid. His own insistence on the purity of his interest has perhaps a   
   telling, even a morbid undertone.'   
      
   'Alice in Wonderland' Lewis Carroll, Edited by Donald J. Gray, A   
   Norton Critical Edition, 2nd Edition. page 334.   
      
   I am not surprised that in light of these concerns that his book was   
   not selected.   
      
             Andrew   
      
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   "For the God who sings"   
   http://www.andrews-corner.org/ftgws.html   
      
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