Alice in wonderland author1/8/2023 ![]() Did he take photographs? Yes, over 3,000 he was one of the pioneers of the new technology. He wasn’t the shy, stammering scholar we like to imagine he was also a socialite who mixed with royalty and the greatest artists and poets of the day. ![]() Did Carroll enjoy the company of young girls? Yes, but he also made friends with young boys, with grown women and with men. A quirky bachelor who amused children with puzzles and games, wrote them long, affectionate letters and took photographs of them in costume - and, sometimes, without much costume at all - may have been charming to the Victorians, but to our modern sensibilities, Carroll might seem like a creepy uncle at best and, at worst, a criminal pedophile.Ĭan we continue to enjoy his work, in light of these troubling claims? The good news is that those rumors tend to dissolve and disappear, like the surface of a looking glass, once we get close and look more carefully. He liked little girls like Alice, that much is clear from the books - but now it’s rumored that he liked them too much and in the wrong kind of way. Alice and her adventures have survived into the 21st century, inspiring video games, theme-park rides, Japanese fashion and, most recently, Tim Burton’s movie adaptations - 2010’s Alice in Wonderland and this weekend’s Alice Through the Looking Glass (which Burton produced). ![]() In 1998, on the 100th anniversary of the death of Alice in Wonderland author Lewis Carroll, a newspaper journalist pointed out that parents today still happily passed on his classic books to their children - but they wouldn’t have wanted the author to be the one reading them to the kids.
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