It’ll be November soon, the month in which Alice’s Adventures Underground was begun and (two looong years later) finally delivered to its intended recipient, Alice Liddell. It’s one of the most myth-drenched areas of Lewis Carroll’s life. So it does no harm to use the upcoming anniversary to take another look. (By the way, for […]
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Wilful Myth-Blindness 1: "Alice I Never Was"
We’re going to be doing an occasional (probably very occasional) series called “Wilful Myth-Blindness”, where we look at examples of writing that determinedly re-states the old Carroll Myths, or indeed any other tired old Myths, as if the evidence to the contrary just wasn’t there. To kick this off, here’s Melanie Benjamin’s 2010 historical novel […]