Three Biographies of Lewis Carroll
Three Perspectives on the Victorian Mathematician, Photographer, and Creator of WonderlandBy Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, Belle Moses, Isa Bowman
Length19h 17m
About this audiobook
Three Biographies of Lewis Carroll brings together complementary portraits of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the mathematician, cleric, photographer, and author whose Alice books transformed children's literature. Moving between affectionate reminiscence, documentary biography, and personal testimony, the volume illuminates both the public literary phenomenon and the guarded private figure behind it. Its varied styles register the early formation of Carroll's posthumous reputation, while accounts of Oxford life, theatrical adaptation, photography, wordplay, and the imaginative worlds of Wonderland and Looking-Glass Land reveal the breadth of his cultural presence. Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, Belle Moses, and Isa Bowman approach Carroll from distinct degrees of familial, biographical, and theatrical proximity. Together, their writings belong to the late-Victorian and Edwardian culture of literary memorialization, when biography helped establish canonical authors while negotiating the boundaries between domestic character, professional vocation, and artistic invention. Their differing perspectives enrich the record of Carroll's milieu and demonstrate how his legacy was shaped not only by texts but also by memory, performance, and personal association. This volume is recommended to readers of Victorian literature, children's literature, biography, and cultural history. It offers an unusually instructive opportunity to compare voices, methods, and assumptions within a single subject, inviting readers to consider how lives are narrated and literary reputations made. Its internal dialogue yields a nuanced introduction to Carroll's enduring fascination.
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Rating★★★★ 4.1 (18)
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GenreBiography and Memoir, Literary Classics
Length19 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 27, 2014
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp - With a preface by Bernard Shaw (Annotated)
18CHAPTER III.
2Three Biographies of Lewis Carroll: The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll + Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home + The Story of Lewis Carroll
19CHAPTER IV.
3PREFACE
20CHAPTER V.
4CHAPTER I
21CHAPTER VI.
5CHAPTER II
22CHAPTER VII.
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6CHAPTER III
23CHAPTER VIII.
7CHAPTER IV
24CHAPTER IX.
8CHAPTER V
25CHAPTER X.
9CHAPTER VI
26CHAPTER XI.
10CHAPTER VII
27CHAPTER XII.
11CHAPTER VIII
28CHAPTER XIII.
12CHAPTER IX
29CHAPTER XIV.
13CHAPTER X
30CHAPTER XV.
14CHAPTER XI
31The Story of Lewis Carroll
15INTRODUCTION.
32ILLUSTRATIONS
16CHAPTER I.
33LEWIS CARROLL
17CHAPTER II.
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