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The Mystery of Lewis Carroll

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by Jenny Woolf


  ‘The Deserted Parks’, 283

  Euclid and His Modern Rivals, 49–50, 176

  Game of Logic, 52–3

  Guide to the Mathematical Student, 44

  ‘Hiawatha’s Photographing’, 248

  ‘The Hunting of the Snark’, 57, 80, 224, 231–3

  ‘Jabberwocky’, 31, 231

  ‘Little Birds’, 230

  ‘Mad Gardener’s Song’, 230

  ‘Morning Clouds’, 194–5

  ‘Oughts and Crosses’, 55

  ‘Phantasmagoria’, 56–7

  ‘A Photographer’s Day Out’, 241

  ‘Puzzles from Wonderland’, 56

  ‘A Sea Dirge’, 156

  Sidney Hamilton, 29, 31

  ‘Stolen Waters’, 114–16, 172–3

  Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, 28–30, 86–8, 133, 195, 225–8, 230, 269

  A Tangled Tale, 55–6

  ‘Theatre Dress’, 120, 196

  Three Sunsets, 113–16

  ‘Three Sunsets’ (‘Dream of Fame’), 113–16

  ‘The Three Voices’, 234–5

  ‘The Unknown One’, 214

  see separate entries for Alice in Wonderland; Through the Looking-Glass

  Carroll Diagrams, 44

  Catholic Women’s League, 41

  charities, 140, 285–7, 295

  Chataway, Gertrude, 216, 256

  children, 72, 87, 112, 114, 118–24, 127–50, 195–6, 296

  boys, 131–3, 147

  and photography, 120–3, 138, 145, 243–4, 248, 252–3, 255–60, 263

  and social class, 135–7

  and storytelling, 216–18, 235

  theatrical children, 131, 135–6

  in Victorian poetry, 118

  children’s charities, 285–6, 295

  cholera, 41, 82

  Christ Church, Oxford, 2–4, 13, 15, 28, 147, 216, 223–4

  and celibacy, 43, 109–10, 183

  Common Room, 50–1, 64, 201, 276–7, 281

  LC’s colleagues, 62–3, 297

  and LC’s income, 268, 271–2

  LC’s living arrangements, 63–4, 281, 296

  and LC’s photography, 250, 252–3

  and Liddell family, 154–6, 161

  and mathematics, 42–3

  and ordination, 43, 164, 182–3, 185–6

  and religious movements, 189–90

  snobbishness, 42–3, 46

  Christian Socialism, 191–2

  Church of England, 43, 182, 220

  Circulating Notes, 283

  Clarendon Press (printers), 170

  Clarke, Henry Savile, 267

  class system, 135–7

  Clay’s (printers), 170

  Clerkenwell women’s prison, 285

  cocaine, 81

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 191

  College Rhymes, 115

  Collier, John, 84

  Collingwood, Mary (née Dodgson), 17, 29–30, 76, 108, 124, 240, 291

  her marriage, 273–4

  Collingwood, Stuart, 15, 17

  and LC’s adolescence, 36–7

  and LC’s child-friendships, 119, 121, 127–8, 140–1

  and LC’s depression, 33, 119, 222, 292

  and LC’s emotional life, 111–13

  and LC’s female friends, 104

  and LC’s ordination, 187–8, 221

  and LC’s storytelling, 215

  and mathematics, 39–40

  and schools, 21, 23–4, 295–6

  and supernatural, 203, 293

  and theatre, 221–2

  Commissioners for Lunacy, 271

  consumption, 232–3

  Cooper, Miss, 275

  Coote, Bert, 132, 146–7, 214

  Coutts Bank, 272

  Croft-on-Tees, 14, 17, 36, 222, 270, 273

  Cuddesdon Theological College, 184

  dancing, 19

  D

  Dante, 174

  Daresbury, 11–13, 245

  Darlington, 270

  Darwin, Charles, 189–91, 203, 245, 270

  de Bunsen, Victoria, 284

  Defoe, Daniel, 204

  Delaroche, Paul, 240

  Denman, Edith, 48

  Deserted Village, The (Goldsmith), 283

  diaries, LC’s, 110–12, 297

  and bank account, 270

  and child-friendships, 119, 128, 137, 140, 148–9

  and Common Room duties, 276–7

  and evolution, 191

  and marriage, 161–2, 164

  and ordination, 183–4, 186, 189

  and photography, 254

  and Skeffington’s marriage, 274–5

  and supernatural, 203–4

  Dickens, Charles, 271

  Disney, Walt, 231

  Dixon, William, 96

  Dodgson, Major C H W, 162

  Dodgson, Caroline, 17

  Dodgson, Revd Charles, 11–14, 19, 110, 250

  his death, 33–4, 110, 119, 176, 201, 222, 273, 294

  and education, 17, 20

  and LC’s ordination, 182–4

  his letters, 32

  relationship with LC, 31–3

  and religion, 189–90, 192, 201

  and theatre, 131, 220, 222

  Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, see Carroll, Lewis

  Dodgson, Edwin, 18–20, 80, 182, 214, 245

  Dodgson, Elizabeth, 16–17, 20

  Dodgson, Frances, 11, 13–14

  her letters, 27–8, 82, 214

  relationship with LC, 26–30

  and theatre, 131

  Dodgson, Frances (Fanny), 16–17, 20, 275

  Dodgson, Henrietta, 17–18, 109

  Dodgson, Louisa, 17, 215, 251

  Dodgson, Margaret, 17

  Dodgson, Mary, see Collingwood, Mary

  Dodgson, Menella, 96, 147–8, 162, 164, 168

  Dodgson, Skeffington, 32, 162, 234, 272, 282

  and learning difficulties, 16, 18, 20

  marriage and clerical career, 18–19, 182, 274–5

  Dodgson, Violet, 274

  Dodgson, Wilfred, 110, 234, 272

  argument with LC, 183, 187

  and Bowman memoir, 104, 106

  as LC’s executor, 141, 265

  marriage and career, 18, 20, 182, 274

  Dogs’ Temporary Home, 287

  Donkin, Alice Jane, 246

  Doublets, 61–2

  Drage, Gerida, 261

  Drage, Gertrude, 261

  Drummond, Henry, 204

  Duckworth, Robinson, 158

  Dymes, Margie, 279

  Dymes, Mrs, 279, 281

  Dymes, Ruth, 279

  Dymes, Thomas Jamieson, 278–81

  E

  Eastbourne, 63, 74, 98, 109, 128, 255, 280

  Eastbourne College, 278

  Eastbourne Gazette, 204

  Ellis, Dymphna, 134

  Enid (friend), 109

  epilepsy, 89–91, 298–9

  Esoteric Buddhism, 87–8

  Eton College, 23

  Euclidian geometry, 49–50

  evolution, 190–1, 270

  F

  fairies, 87–8

  Faraday, Michael, 244

  fathers, 31

  Feilding, Mrs, 118

  Fenton, Roger, 250

  Fletcher, Margaret, 41

  flowers, language of, 168–9, 247

  Foote, Dr, 97

  ‘Forster’, 8, 270–1

  Forster, John, 271

  Forster, Revd Thomas, 271

  Fourth Dimension, 208

  France, 225

  Frederick, Crown Prince, of Denmark, 244, 252

  free love, 97

  Freshwater, 251

  Freud, Sigmund, 142–3

  Frost, Arthur Burdett, 97

  Furniss, Dorothy, 88–9

  Furniss, Harry, 26, 70, 88–9, 91, 202, 269

  G

  gadgets, 129, 282

  Gaisford, Dean, 42, 45

  Gamlen, Mr and Mrs, 107

  Gavazzi, Alessand
ro, 190

  Gernsheim, Helmut, 247–8, 255–6

  Gilbert W S, 137

  Girdlestone, Arthur, 127–9, 150

  Glanvil, Joseph, 204

  Godstow, 157, 159

  Goldschmidt, A M E, 142

  Goldsmith, Oliver, 283

  Goodacre, Dr Selwyn, 82–3

  Goya, Francisco de, 29

  Greek Slave, The (Powers), 258

  Green, Rev. G. R., 281

  Green, Roger Lancelyn, 72

  Grotjahn, Martin, 145

  Guildford, 16, 92, 232, 273, 280

  Guppy, Mrs (Miss Nichol), 207–8, 294

  H

  Harcourt, Augustus Vernon, 158

  Hargreaves, Reginald, 174

  Harrison, Frederic, 278

  Hart, Dr Yvonne, 90–1, 298

  Harte, Bret, 247

  Hatch, Beatrice, 136, 145, 256

  Hatch, Ethel, 145, 256, 284

  Hatch, Evelyn, 243, 256

  Headington Hill, 41

  Heaphy, Thomas, 205–6, 281

  Henderson, Annie, 145, 257

  Henderson, Mrs, 256–7

  Henry VIII, King, 3

  Herkomer, Hubert von, 284

  Hills & Saunders (photographic printers), 282

  Holiday, Henry, 247

  Holiday, Winifred, 133

  Holman Hunt, William, 244

  Holmes, Sherlock, 81

  Home, D D, 204

  homeopathy, 67, 80–1

  Homes of Hope, 285

  homosexuality, 24, 132

  hospitals, 286–7

  House of Charity for Distressed Persons, 287

  Hudson, Derek, 122

  Hughes, Arthur, 84, 282

  Hunt, James, 75–6

  Hunt, Mrs, 263

  Hunt, Thomas, 75

  Huxley, Thomas, 191, 244, 270

  I

  Idylls of the King (Tennyson), 113–14

  ‘In Memoriam’ (Tennyson), 192

  India, 82

  insurance, 287–8

  international date line, 40

  Irving, Laurence, 102–3, 263

  Isle of Wight, 251

  Italy, 208

  J

  Jack the Ripper, 6

  Jacques, Irene Dodgson, 83, 129

  Jane (nursemaid), 31

  K

  King’s College London, 192

  Kingsley, Charles, 284

  Kingsley, Henry, 284–5

  Kitchin, George, 244, 252

  Kitchin, Maud, 253, 261–3

  Kitchin, Xie, 252–3, 261, 263

  L

  Lady of the Lilacs (Hughes), 84, 282

  Langton Clarke, James, 208–9

  Latham, Dr, 298

  Latham, P W, 91

  laudanum, 81

  Lawrie, Miss Rose, 247

  Leach, Karoline, 6, 117, 125

  Lebailly, Hugues, 84, 97

  letters, LC’s, 15–16, 29, 36, 73, 77, 156, 219, 223, 297

  to Bertie Coote, 146

  complaining, 63

  to dentist, 235–6

  destroyed by family, 140

  and education, 20–1

  and gossips, 108

  and photography, 262–3

  Lewin, Dr, 76

  Ley, Dr J W, 22, 24

  Liddell, Alice, 57, 58, 68, 112, 142, 147, 155–61, 169

  and Alice in Wonderland, 153, 157–8, 168–71, 174–5, 177–8, 217, 223

  and marriage, 144, 154, 161–3, 165–8

  as married woman, 174

  and photography, 155–7, 161, 244, 247, 252, 259

  Liddell, Edith, 58, 155, 157–60, 167, 252

  Liddell, Dean H G, 45, 153, 155, 160, 172, 177–8, 266

  and LC’s ordination, 164, 185–6

  Liddell, Harry, 112, 131, 154–6, 279

  Liddell, Lorina (Ina), 58, 75, 147, 155–60, 169, 252

  and Alice in Wonderland, 153, 158

  appearance, 154, 163

  and marriage, 162–8

  Liddell, Mrs, 117, 155, 159–64, 168, 172, 178

  Liddon, H P, 132, 139, 185, 188, 207

  Literature, 104

  Liverpool Lock Hospital, 286

  Llandudno, 161

  Lock Hospitals, 286

  London Photographic Society, 246

  London School of Economics, 279

  Louisa (nursemaid), 30–1

  Lowndes, Dr Frederick W, 286

  Lucy, Edith, 102

  Lucy, Katie, 18

  Lutwidge, Lucy, 26, 215

  Lutwidge, Robert W Skeffington, 26, 79, 83, 85, 110, 271

  M

  MacDonald, George, 132, 191, 244

  MacDonald, Greville, 132

  MacDonald, Lilia, 193

  MacDonald, Mrs, 219

  Macmillan & Co (publishers), 170, 268–9, 277, 283, 288

  macropsia and micropsia, 90, 142, 299

  Madeira, 155

  magic and the supernatural, 203–9

  Maidens’ Race, The (Weguelin), 84

  Mallam, Ursula, 133

  Manchester, 8

  Manners, Mary, 172

  marriage, 19–20, 96–7, 109–10, 296–7

  masturbation, 86, 90, 112

  mathematics, 17, 26, 39–40, 43–5, 48–51, 131, 183

  puzzles and problems, 49–51, 54–5

  and religion, 196, 210

  Mather, Cotton, 204

  Maurice, F D, 191–2, 199

  Maxwell, Sir Herbert, 47

  Mayhew, Ethel, 121–2

  Mayhew, Janet, 121–2

  Mayhew, Margaret, 74, 122–3, 199

  Mayhew, Mr and Mrs, 121–2

  Mayhew, Ruth, 121–2

  Mayor, Robert, 40

  medicine, 67, 78–80, 85–6, 96

  mental illness, 26, 85, 89–91

  Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants, 286

  Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association, 287

  migraine, 91, 298–9

  Mileham, Harry R, 136

  Mileham, May, 136

  Millais, John Everett, 244

  Miller, Marion, 102

  Miller, May, 109

  Monthly Packet, The, 55

  morphine, 81

  Morton, J M, 222

  Moscow, 207

  mothers, 28–31, 226

  Munro, Alexander, 245

  N

  Nana (Suchorowsky), 84–5

  New Royalty Theatre, 221

  Niagara Falls, 218

  Nickel, Douglas, 254–5

  nieces, 104

  Nottingham, 76

  Nuneham House, 157

  nursemaids, 30–1

  O

  Observer, 145

  Ore, 75

  Origin of Species (Darwin), 189–90, 245

  Owen, Atty, 261–2

  Owen, Mr and Mrs, 261–3

  Oxford, 4, 40–1, 270–1, 274, 280, 297

  Ashmolean Museum, 250

  Badcock’s Yard, 249, 253

  Mitre Inn, 156

  Museum of Natural History debate, 191, 270

  and religious controversy, 189–93

  Oxford Art & Antique Agency, 262

  Oxford High School for Girls, 47, 52

  Oxford Movement, 189

  Oxford Old Bank, 265, 271, 275

  Oxfordshire, 245

  P

  Paget, Sir James, 85–6, 96

  Palgrave F T, 246

  pantomimes, 221, 267

  Paris, 83, 206–8

  Pharaoh’s Handmaiden (Collier), 84

  photography, 26, 131, 140, 203, 240–63

  art photographs, 245

  and children, 120–3, 138, 145, 243–4, 248, 252–3, 255–60, 263

  family photographs, 245

  genre photographs, 245–8

  and Liddell family, 155–7, 161, 252, 259

  and morality, 258–60

  nude photographs, 120–3, 128, 138, 145, 256–60, 263

  scientific photographs, 245

  social photography,
250–1

  topographical photographs, 245

  wet collodion process, 242–3, 253

  poetry, LC’s, 228–35

  polygamy, 96

  Poole, Mrs, 124

  pornography, 96

  Powers, Hiram, 258

  Prickett, Miss, 155–6, 161–2, 169

  Princeton Collection, 246

  prostitution, 96, 285–7

  psychoanalysis, 142–3, 146–7, 255–6

  psychology, 293

  Pudney, John, 68

  Punch, 239

  Pusey, Dr E B, 139, 182, 190, 192

  Q

  Quin, Minna, 283

  R

  Radley School, 23–4

  railways, 15, 41, 275

  Rectory Magazine, The, 214–15

  Rectory Umbrella, The, 39

  Reed, German, 267

  Reed, Langford, 95, 102

  Rees, Walter, 77, 131

  Reformatory and Refuge Union, 286

  Rejlander, Oscar Gustav, 243, 249–50

  ‘Resolution and Independence’ (Wordsworth), 229

  Richards, Mrs, 134

  Richmond School, 20–1

  Ripon, 14

  Rivers, Henry F, 76–8

  Rix, Charlotte, 100–1

  Rix, Edith, 97–8

  Roman Catholicism, 189–90

  Rossetti, Christina, 118

  Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 97, 250

  Rossetti, William, 70

  Rowell, Ethel, 47, 68, 134, 145

  Rugby School, 2, 21–5, 40, 83, 132, 140, 261, 295–6

  Ruskin, John, 239

  Russia, 25, 83, 207, 283

  Ryan, Michael, 97

  S

  Sadleir, Michael, 63

  St Bartholomew’s Hospital, 78

  St Mary’s Hospital, 79

  Sandown, 216

  Schilder, Professor Paul, 145

  schools, 20–4, 295–6

  Scott, Sir Walter, 247

  séances, 206–8, 294

  sexual abuse, 23–4

  Shaftesbury, Lord, 23

  Shakespeare, William, 221

  Shawyer, Enid, 145

  sherry, 91

  Shuldham, Edward, 80

  Shute, Mrs E L, 67, 201

  Sidgwick, Henry, 159

  Skinner, John, 146–7

  slavery, 258–9

  Society for Psychical Research, 203, 208, 293

  Society for the Protection of Women and Children, 285

  Society for the Relief of Distress, 287

  Society for the Rescue of Young Women and Children, 285

  Society for the Suppression of Mendicity, 287

  Society for the Suppression of Vice, 286–7

  Soto, Fernando, 232

  South, John Flint, 78

  South Kensington Museum, 99

  Southey, Robert, 217, 245

  Spencer, Herbert, 197

  stammering, 72–8, 131, 214

  steamships, 273

  Stern, Jeffrey, 205

  Stevens, Enid, 230–1

  Strong, T B, 49, 52, 62, 290–1

  strychnine, 91

  Stylographic pen, 282

  Suchorowsky, Marceli, 84

 

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