“The Profits of Authorship”—“Rhyme?
and Reason?”—The Common Room
Cat—Visit to Jersey—Purity of
elections—Parliamentary Representation—Various
literary projects—Letters to Miss E.
Rix—Being happy—“A Tangled
Tale”—Religious arguments—The
“Alice” Operetta—“Alice’s
Adventures Underground”—“The
Game of Logic”—Mr. Harry Furniss.
CHAPTER VII
(1888-1891)
A systematic life—“Memoria
Technica”—Mr. Dodgson’s shyness—“A
Lesson in Latin”—The “Wonderland”
Stamp-Case—“Wise Words about Letter-Writing”—Princess
Alice—“Sylvie and Bruno”—“The
night cometh”—“The Nursery
‘Alice’”—Coventry
Patmore—Telepathy—Resignation
of Dr. Liddell—A letter about Logic.
Mr. Dodgson resigns the Curatorship—Bazaars—He
lectures to children—A mechanical “Humpty
Dumpty”—A logical controversy—Albert
Chevalier—“Sylvie and Bruno Concluded”—“Pillow
Problems”—Mr. Dodgson’s generosity—College
services—Religious difficulties—A
village sermon—Plans for the future—Reverence—“Symbolic
Logic”
CHAPTER IX
(1897-1898)
Logic-lectures—Irreverent
anecdotes—Tolerance of his religious
views—A mathematical discovery—“The
Little Minister”—Sir George Baden-Powell—Last
illness—“Thy will be done”—“Wonderland”
at last!—Letters from friends—“Three
Sunsets”—“Of such is the kingdom
of Heaven”
Mr. Dodgson’s fondness for children—Miss
Isabel Standen—Puzzles—“Me
and Myself”—A double acrostic—“Father
William”—Of drinking healths—Kisses
by post—Tired in the face—The
unripe plum—Eccentricities—“Sylvie
and Bruno”—“Mr. Dodgson is
going on well”
CHAPTER XI
THE SAME—continued.
Books for children—“The
Lost Plum-Cake”—“An Unexpected
Guest”—Miss
Isa Bowman—Interviews—“Matilda
Jane”—Miss
Edith Rix—Miss
Kathleen Eschwege
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
LEWIS CARROLL—Frontispiece
From a photograph.
ARCHDEACON DODGSON AS A YOUNG MAN
From a miniature, painted about 1826.
DARESBURY PARSONAGE, LEWIS CARROLL’S BIRTHPLACE
From a photograph by Lewis Carroll.
LEWIS CARROLL, AGED 8
From a silhouette.
MRS. DODGSON, LEWIS CARROLL’S MOTHER
From a silhouette.
CROFT RECTORY; ARCHDEACON DODGSON AND FAMILY IN FOREGROUND
From a photograph by Lewis Carroll, 1856.
