The last of these we picked out was “Alice in Wonderland garden gnomes”, which really just opens up a vista in the mind’s eye doesn’t it. ( They never told us if they found what they were looking for, but I know they have their gnomes nestled safe in the garden by the goldfish pond, […]
Archives for June, 2010
Your comments on the Wasp
A lot of responses to the Wasp post, so we thought we’d add a small follow-up looking at some of the points raised. Jack Bradshaw said : I do not believe it has never been scrutinized. I think I read somewhere the type had been examined and it was genuine, can anyone confirm that? The […]
The Curious Case of the Wasp in the Wig
Just realised today – there’s an anniversary coming, and it’s a weird one. 36 years ago next month a startling announcement appeared quietly in the sales catalogue of Sotheby’s London auction room: The Property of a Gentleman. 76. DODGSON (C.L.) “Lewis Carroll”. GALLEY PROOFS FOR A SUPPRESSED PORTION OF “THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS”, slip 64-67 and […]
the question they're all asking…
Just to clarify, following the recent stuff being said in the comments section – neither this blog nor Carroll Myth have ever hosted ‘startling homosexual pornography’. We considered it of course, as any serious site must, and even had our links all planned out – “About Contrariwise” “Visit our Website” “More Links” “Startling Homosexual Pornography” […]
Nohow?
A recent commenter asked for info on Morton Cohen’s article dismissing the Guildford paper as a ‘joke’, and another commenter pointed her to the old Nohow section on our website, which hosted a collection of articles by Cohen, the late Martin Gardner and others offering their various rebuttals of the idea of a ‘Carroll Myth’ […]