Still She Haunts Me by Roiphe, Katie
Still She Haunts Me by Roiphe, Katie

Still She Haunts Me

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a shy Oxford mathematician, reverend, and pioneering photographer. Under the pen name Lewis...
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Author: Katie Roiphe
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Still She Haunts Me by Roiphe, Katie

Still She Haunts Me

$32.38
Still She Haunts Me by Roiphe, Katie

Still She Haunts Me

$32.38
Author: Katie Roiphe
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a shy Oxford mathematician, reverend, and pioneering photographer. Under the pen name Lewis Carroll he wrote two stunning classics that liberated children's literature from the constraints of Victorian moralism. But the exact nature of his relationship with Alice Liddell, daughter of the dean of his college, and the young girl who was his muse and subject, remains mysterious.

Dodgson met Alice in 1856, when she was almost four years old. Eventually he would capture her in his photographs, and transform the stories he told her into the luminous Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass. Then, suddenly, when Alice was eleven, the Liddell family shut him out, and his relationship with Alice ended abruptly. The pages from Dodgson's diary that may have explained the rift have disappeared.

In imagining what might have happened, Katie Roiphe has created a deep, textured portrait of Alice and Dodgson: she changing from an unruly child to a bewitching adolescent, and he, a diffident, neurasthenic adult whose increasing obsession with her almost destroys him. Here, too, is a brilliantly realized cast of characters that surround them: Lorina Liddell, Alice's mother, who loves her daughter even as she envies her youth; Edith Liddell, Alice's resentful little sister; and James Hunt, Dodgson's speech therapist, an island of sanity in Dodgson's increasingly chaotic world.

Author: Katie Roiphe
Publisher: Delta
Published: 05/01/2010
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780385335300


Review Citation(s):
Booksense '76 Nov/Dec 2002 11/01/2002 pg. 1

About the Author
Katie Roiphe received her Ph.D. from Princeton in English literature. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Esquire, Harper's, and The New Yorker, among many others. Her previous books are The Morning After and Last Night in Paradise. She lives in New York City.


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