DOCSLIB.ORG

Bangor University DOCTOR of PHILOSOPHY Contextualising Carroll : the Contradiction of Science and Religion in the Life and Works

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Bangor University DOCTOR of PHILOSOPHY Contextualising Carroll : the Contradiction of Science and Religion in the Life and Works Bangor University DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Contextualising Carroll : the contradiction of science and religion in the life and works of Lewis Carroll Graham-Smith, Darien Award date: 2005 Awarding institution: Bangor University Link to publication General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal ? Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 11. Oct. 2021 Contextualising Carroll The contradiction of science and religion in the life and works of Lewis Carroll Darien Graham-Smith PhD Thesis University of Wales, Bangor 2005 Contextualising Carroll Darien Graham-Smith D. Graham-Smith Contextualising Carroll 3 Summary This work presents a theory that Lewis Carroll's life and works were profoundly affected by a conflict between his logical world view and his religious beliefs. Three examina- tions are presented - the first of convention and logic in Carroll's life, the second of the nature of his religion and the third of his response to contemporary science. The thesis concludes that Victorian science brought Carroll's beliefs into contradiction, causing him to experience religious and existential doubts. It is suggested that an understand- ing of these doubts can inform an understanding of Carroll's relationships with Alice Liddell and other young girls, and indeed has repercussions for his entire life and works beyond the scope of this thesis. Two brief appendices expand upon issues mentioned in the text: the first considers the artefacts at Ripon Cathedral which are supposed by some to have influenced Carroll; and the second discusses EfJie's Dream-Garden, a children's book which bears some resemblance to the Alice story but which was published several years before that story was first told. D. Graham-Smith Contextualising Carroll 4 Contents Summary 3 ....................................................................................................... Contents 4 ......................................................................................................... Preface 5 ............................................................................................................ Acknowledgements 7 ...................................................................................... Author's Declarations 8 ................................................................................... Definitions 9 ..................................................................................................... Chapter 1: Introduction 10 ............................................................................. Chapter 2: Convention 23 ............................................................................... Chapter 3: Religion 46 ..................................................................................... Chapter 4: Science 69 ...................................................................................... Chapter 5: Darwin Dodo 88 and the ............................................................. Chapter 6: Dreams Doubts 114 and ............................................................... Chapter 7: Conclusion 135 .............................................................................. Appendix A: Ripon Cathedral 139 ................................................................. Appendix B: Effie's Dream Garden 142 ......................................................... Works 147 cited ................................................................................................. D. Graham-Smith Contextualising Carroll 5 Preface The life of and works of Lewis Carroll present a highly rewarding field of research: the ground has been helpfully staked out by those who have gone before, but a little dig- ging can still unearth new connections and contradictions in the life and works of this complex but endearing man. Perhaps precisely because of this richness, it sometimes seems that there are as many different readings of Carroll as there are Carrollians; and while carrying out the research for this thesis between 1999 and 2003 I found myself among a body of critical and contextual sources as broad and diverse as Carroll's own canon. Finally, in early 2004, I submitted a thesis that sought to make sense of this im- mense corpus of primary and secondary material through the not very sophisticated device of juxtaposition. Unsurprisingly, I failed; but my examiners must have seen some merit in my ef- forts, as I was invited to restructure the text, so as to more clearly express my own po- sition, and resubmit. This thesis is the result of that process, and represents a major reworking of my earlier submission - more major, I suspect, than my examiners envis- aged. As they suggested, I returned to work with the intention of updating my thesis so as to advance and support my own argument as clearly and strongly as possible; but it rapidly became apparent that the best way to achieve this would be to go beyond the examiners' recommendations and redraft the text entirely. The material has therefore been rearranged into a progressive order, so that the argument may emerge with some- thing resembling logical consequence; and a commentary has been added which aims, at each stage of the argument, to make clear precisely what is being argued; why; and how this fits into the overall structure of the thesis. I hope it will be agreed by those who saw the earlier version that the result is an improvement. On the other side of the equation, I acknowledge that parts of my earlier submis- sion were barely relevant to my central argument, and for this edition I have ruthlessly excised such passagesin favour of a tighter focus. Thus, my earlier reflections on issues such as museums, colonialism and Victorian railways will no longer be found within D. Graham-Smith - Contextualising Carroll 6 this work, though if they are of interest to any reader then I should be happy to make them available. Among all these changes, I might have welcomed the opportunity to change my title, which seems to reflect the ethos of the earlier edition more than the argument of the current one. However, since this thesis is merely a revision of an earlier submission, it has been suggestedthat it would be inappropriate to change its title. Having reviewed many tens of thousands of words for this second submission, I can hardly complain at leaving those particular two alone. At any rate, though much has changed, the conclusion of my thesis remains the same: that Carroll's quirks can be at least partially illuminated by reference to religious doubts. In returning to this proposition, however, I hope the reader will enjoy and ap- preciate the new, more direct route I have plotted. Doncaster, November 2005 D. Graham-Smith Contextualising Carroll 7 Acknowledgements This thesis is the product of nearly six years' research, during which time I have been blessed with the support of a wide range of friends and colleagues.In particular, I wish to thank JessHardman, Rick Dickerson, Julie Neild, Olivia Patterson, SeamusMcCauley, Dr Luke Pebody, Brian Cowe, Terrie McCann, Shreena Kotecha and my girlfriend Dr Lise Smith for her support and tolerance. I also wish to acknowledge the support of the staff of the English Department at the University of Wales, Bangor. I thank Prof Peter Field for his enthusiasm and encourage- ment, which were a constant inspiration during my time on campus, and wish him a long and rewarding retirement. I thank Dr Tony Brown for his thoughtfulness and gen- erosity throughout the examination process. And I thank my supervisors, Dr Michael Whitworth and Dr Lucie Armitt, for their guidance and support, without which this thesis could not have been finished. And finally I extend my most heartfelt thanks and dedicate this work with love to my parents, without whom it would never even have been started. D. Graham-Smith Contextualising Carroll 9 Definitions Referencesto "Carroll" where no title is specified are to Lewis Carroll, The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll, ed. Alexander Woollcott (London: Penguin, 1939). Referencesto "Diaries" where no edition is specified are to Lewis Carroll's Diaries, ed. Edward Wakeling, 7 vols. (vols. 8&9 in preparation) (Luton: Lewis Carroll Society, 1993-2003). Referencesto "Letters" where no edition is specified are to Lewis Carroll, TheLetters of Lewis Carroll, ed. Morton Cohen, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan, 1979). (The above definitions are repeated in the footnotes introducing the works in question. ) Where I write that a work was in Carroll's library, my authority is Jeffrey Stern, Lewis Carroll, Bibliophile (Luton: Lewis Carroll Society, 1997). This work includes facsimiles of the catalogues to the various auctions at which Carroll's library was sold, and Stern includes an alphabetical index so that works may be easily located in these facsimiles. D. Graham-Smith Contextualising Carroll
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Alice in Wonderland
    Rupert Neelands Antiquarian Book and Manuscript Specialist Alice in Wonderland Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), known to all by his pseudonym of Lewis Alice Pleasance Liddell, Carroll, was born into a high-church Anglican family living in Cheshire, the third aged seven, photo- graphed by Charles of eleven children. His father, also named Charles, obtained a double first in Dodgson in 1860 mathematics and classics at Christ Church, Oxford, and taught Mathematics at his college before marrying a cousin, Frances Jane “Fanny” Lutwidge from Hull, in 1827. Perpetual curate at Daresbury, Cheshire, from the year of his marriage, then from 1843, when his son was aged twelve, rector at Croft-on-Tees in Yorkshire, Charles Dodgson was the devout author of twenty-four books on theology and religious subjects. The son was a humourist. He possessed the natural ability to amuse children, and first practised storytelling, versifying, and punning on his own siblings. With this comic ability came the unshakeable gravitas of excelling at mathematics. Like his father, Charles junior read and taught mathematics at Christ Church, taking first class honours in the subject in 1854 and a second in classics. His exceptional talent Charles Lutwidge won him the Christ Church Mathematical Lectureship in 1855, and he remained a Dodgson at Christ mathematical professor until 1881. Church 1856-60 (John Rich Album, NPG) Charles’s jokes were rather literary or donnish in nature. His pseudonym, first used in March 1856 for publication of a poem on “Solitude”, was a piece of linguistic drollery, a translation of his own name into Latin as Carolus Ludovicus.
    [Show full text]
  • Pusey's Eucharistic Theology After the Sermon of 1843
    118 Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Pusey’s Eucharistic Theology after the Sermon of 1843 4.1 Introduction Pusey’s biographer, Henry Parry Liddon, describes the sermon of 1843, The Holy Eucharist: a Comfort to the Penitent as ‘the most important sermon of Pusey’s life’.1 The effort Pusey expended in the sermon and the reaction to it affected him greatly. His subsequent two year prohibition from preaching before the University of Oxford was a source of great pain to Pusey and may go some of the way to explaining why he did not write another major piece on the Eucha- rist until 1851, some eight years later, and why he did not preach on this subject again until 1853. Pusey’s first major statement on the Eucharist after the sermon of 1843 took the form of a letter to the Bishop of London, Bishop Blomfield, which was pub- lished in 1851.2 Pusey believed this letter was necessary since the Bishop in his Charge3 to the clergy of the Diocese of London in 1850 had made certain comments on eucharistic doctrine which Pusey saw as applying to him. Pusey states in a ‘Notice’4 placed before the letter that he believed that The Rev. Wil- liam Dodsworth5 had not only misunderstood his teachings on several mat- ters, including the Eucharist, suggesting a different sense to what Pusey had actually taught, but that in so doing he had unduly influenced the views of Bishop Blomfield as expressed in his Charge. Dodsworth had published a pub- lic letter6 to Pusey objecting to a perceived lack of strength in Pusey’s posi- tion on the crisis concerning baptismal regeneration in the Church of England.7 In addition Dodsworth made the claim that Pusey was ‘teaching the propitiatory sacrifice of the Holy Eucharist, as applicatory of the one sacri- fice of the cross, and by adoration of Christ really Present on the altar under 1 Liddon, Life of Pusey, II, p.
    [Show full text]
  • The Other Side of the Lens-Exhibition Catalogue.Pdf
    The Other Side of the Lens: Lewis Carroll and the Art of Photography during the 19th Century is curated by Edward Wakeling, Allan Chapman, Janet McMullin and Cristina Neagu and will be open from 4 July ('Alice's Day') to 30 September 2015. The main purpose of this new exhibition is to show the range and variety of photographs taken by Lewis Carroll (aka Charles Dodgson) from topography to still-life, from portraits of famous Victorians to his own family and wide circle of friends. Carroll spent nearly twenty-five years taking photographs, all using the wet-collodion process, from 1856 to 1880. The main sources of the photographs on display are Christ Church Library, the Metropolitan Museum, New York, National Portrait Gallery, London, Princeton University and the University of Texas at Austin. Visiting hours: Monday: 2:00 pm - 4.30 pm; Tuesday - Thursday: 10.00 am - 1.00 pm; 2:00 pm - 4.30 pm; Friday: 10:00 am - 1.00 pm. Framed photographs on loan from Edward Wakeling Photographic equipment on loan from Allan Chapman Exhibition catalogue and poster by Cristina Neagu 2 The Other Side of the Lens Lewis Carroll and the Art of Photography ‘A Tea Merchant’, 14 July 1873. IN 2155 (Texas). Tom Quad Rooftop Studio, Christ Church. Xie Kitchin dressed in a genuine Chinese costume sitting on tea-chests portraying a Chinese ‘tea merchant’. Dodgson subtitled this as ‘on duty’. In a paired image, she sits with hat off in ‘off duty’ pose. Contents Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and His Camera 5 Exhibition Catalogue Display Cases 17 Framed Photographs 22 Photographic Equipment 26 3 4 Croft Rectory, July 1856.
    [Show full text]
  • ARTICLE: Jan Susina: Playing Around in Lewis Carroll's Alice Books
    Playing Around in Lewis Carroll’s Alice Books • Jan Susina Mathematician Charles Dodgson’s love of play and his need for rules came together in his use of popular games as part of the structure of the two famous children’s books, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, he wrote under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. The author of this article looks at the interplay between the playing of such games as croquet and cards and the characters and events of the novels and argues that, when reading Carroll (who took a playful approach even in his academic texts), it is helpful to understand games and game play. Charles Dodgson, more widely known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll, is perhaps one of the more playful authors of children’s literature. In his career, as a children’s author and as an academic logician and mathematician, and in his personal life, Carroll was obsessed with games and with various forms of play. While some readers are surprised by the seemingly split personality of Charles Dodgson, the serious mathematician, and Lewis Carroll, the imaginative author of children’s books, it was his love of play and games and his need to establish rules and guidelines that effectively govern play that unite these two seemingly disparate facets of Carroll’s personality. Carroll’s two best-known children’s books—Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking- Glass and What Alice Found There (1871)—use popular games as part of their structure. In Victoria through the Looking-Glass, Florence Becker Lennon has gone so far as to suggest about Carroll that “his life was a game, even his logic, his mathematics, and his singular ordering of his household and other affairs.
    [Show full text]
  • If Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
    If Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) had not written Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, he’d probably be remembered as a pioneer photographer. But his Oxford ‘day job’ was as Lecturer in Mathematics at Christ Church. What mathematics did he do? C L Dodgson Dodgson time-line 1832 Born in Daresbury, Cheshire 1843 Moves to Croft Rectory, Yorkshire ( ) 1844–49 At Richmond and Rugby Schools Lewis Carroll 1850 Matriculates at Oxford University 1851 Studies at Christ Church, Oxford 1852 Nominated a ‘Student’ at Christ Church Oxford 1854 Long Vacation at Whitby studying with ‘Bat’ Price First Class in Mathematics in his Finals Examinations mathematician 1856 Mathematical Lecturer at Christ Church Adopts the pseudonym Lewis Carroll “What I look like when I’m lecturing. The merest sketch, you will allow – Develops an interest in photography yet still I think there’s something grand 1860 Notes on the First Two Books of Euclid In the expression of the brow 1861 The Formulae of Plane Trigonometry and in the action of the hand.” 1862 Boat trip to Godstow with the C L Dodgson Liddell sisters 1865 The Dynamics of a Parti-cle Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 1866 ‘Condensation of Determinants’ read to the Royal Society 1867 An Elementary Treatise on Determinants 1868 The Fifth Book of Euclid 1871 Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There 1873 A Discussion of the Various Methods of Procedure in Conducting Elections 1876 The Hunting of the Snark 1879 Euclid and his Modern Rivals 1881 Resigns Mathematical Lecturership 1882 Euclid, Books I, II 1883 Lawn Tennis Tournaments 1884 The Principles of Parliamentary Representation 1885 A Tangled Tale 1886 The Game of Logic 1888 Curiosa Mathematica, I.
    [Show full text]
  • In.T-Ro"D :U'g Ti-O N
    .IN.T-RO "D :U'G TI-O N "No! No! The-a'd ventures-, first," sajd'tlie Gryphon in .an impatient: tone: ."ex- planations, take'such a dreadful time.":('The'L6bster-Quadrille')'". •-. -. ' "Even a joke should Have some meaning- -and a child's'more important than a'joke, I hope." {'Queen Alice'}1 .. i: Tlie Child, Nonsense and Meaning '"The'adventures'..first'".,\says Carroll's' Gryphon; \vitli,his^dread of 'explanations', arid. aU1. readers: know;, this-is'.the'right orderuYet rritro^' duction's'incvitably "come before,adventures.and'intrbdu'crions.tend .to mean explanations:-Lbts of-things'happen:the.^\Tong.,way .rouh'd in' these .texts -?;1"Sentence-first —^"erdic^afterivards'i'i'-sliouts the. Queen of Hearts3'—.so:readerS'vWho'.share: the.Gryplion's:priorities^ can al\vays: read the introduction-after th'e:stories,"or:not at;all/You simplytfollow the instructions of.the King of.Hearts: "'Begin-at'the-bcgirining'..'-. ..and go on;tilTy6urcbme.io the-endr.then stop'".3. ••LJ-.: ..._ ..; ; .• . .;-.:i. : Yet,Cafrolls:herd)iie,'atLthc hearfbf,tHese:adventuresj :s, very.much concerned with'.'questions-of 'mean ing:: iVheii sKe 'dreamily: finds her way tb'the other side of.the looking-glass, one~:of the;first things she encounters "Is a. poem:'call ed:'Jabben,vocky.>.':After.-.reading ."it, '.Alice remarks '"It seems very/pretty.1.-/.'-but it's-rather hard to ^understand!'." '"Somehowit-'fills-my:head:.\vith;ideas''',^he reflects; '"only 1''don't exactly 'la'iow what they>are!".!1 " : ..•L-jiurT't ,- -.'- . ..iL:-. .••-.. -/'v,.- In this-Tespectfthe'nonsensical.mirrbr-poem;'Jabber\vock;'>.stands'asv a.mirror:of the classic literary,double-act.o£whicKJt is.'part: All readers- Q{ Alice's Adventures.in'.Wondcrlimd 'and~Tliroiigh''the--Lookwg-'Clas$, those.
    [Show full text]
  • Lewis Carroll (Charles L
    LEWIS CARROLL (CHARLES L. DODGSON) a selection from The Library of an English Bibliophile Peter Harrington london VAT no. gb 701 5578 50 Peter Harrington Limited. Registered office: WSM Services Limited, Connect House, 133–137 Alexandra Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 7JY. Registered in England and Wales No: 3609982 Design: Nigel Bents; Photography Ruth Segarra. Peter Harrington london catalogue 119 LEWIS CARROLL (CHARLES L. DODGSON) A collection of mainly signed and inscribed first and early editions From The Library of an English Bibliophile All items from this catalogue are on display at Dover Street mayfair chelsea Peter Harrington Peter Harrington 43 Dover Street 100 Fulham Road London w1s 4ff London sw3 6hs uk 020 3763 3220 uk 020 7591 0220 eu 00 44 20 3763 3220 eu 00 44 20 7591 0220 usa 011 44 20 3763 3220 usa 011 44 20 7591 0220 Dover St opening hours: 10am–7pm Monday–Friday; 10am–6pm Saturday www.peterharrington.co.uk FOREWORD In 1862 Charles Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. With Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), children’s literature escaped from the grimly moral tone of evangelical tracts to delight in magical worlds populated by talking rabbits and stubborn lobsters. A key work in modern fantasy literature, it is the prototype of the portal quest, in which readers are invited to follow the protagonist into an alternate world of the fantastic. The Alice books are one of the best-known works in world literature. They have been translated into over one hundred languages, and are referenced and cited in academic works and popular culture to this day.
    [Show full text]
  • Carrollian Language Arts & Rhetoric
    CARROLLIAN LANGUAGE ARTS & RHETORIC: DODGSON’S QUEST FOR ORDER & MEANING, WITH A PORPOISE By Madonna Fajardo Kemp Approved: _____________________________________ __________________________________ Rebecca Ellen Jones Susan North UC Foundation Associate Professor Director of Composition of Rhetoric and Composition Committee Member Director of Thesis _____________________________________ Charles L. Sligh Assistant Professor of Literature Committee Member _____________________________________ __________________________________ Herbert Burhenn A. Jerald Ainsworth Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Dean of the Graduate School CARROLLIAN LANGUAGE ARTS & RHETORIC: DODGSON’S QUEST FOR ORDER & MEANING, WITH A PORPOISE By Madonna Fajardo Kemp A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in English: Rhetoric and Composition The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Chattanooga, TN December 2011 ii Copyright © 2011 By Madonna Fajardo Kemp All Rights Reserved iii ABSTRACT Lewis Carroll (Rev. Charles Dodgson) is a language specialist who has verifiably altered our lexicon and created fictional worlds that serve as commentary on our ability to effectively create meaning within our existing communicative systems. This ability to create language and illustrations of everyday language issues can be traced back to his personal quest for order and meaning; the logician and teacher has uncovered the accepted language and language practices that can result in verbal confusion and ineffective speech, as well as the accepted practices that can help us to avoid verbal confusion and social conflict—all of which reveals a theorist in his own right, one who aides our understanding of signification and pragmatic social skills. Dodgson’s fictive representations of our ordinary language concerns serve as concrete examples of contextual language interactions; therefore, they serve as appropriate material for the teaching of rhetorical theory and, most especially, language arts.
    [Show full text]
  • Forming an Anglo-Catholic Parish
    ety under the care of the Bishop of Wakefield . Serving Tradition - alists in Calderdale. Sunday Mass 9.30am, Rosary/Benediction usually last Sunday, 5pm. Mass Tuesday, Friday & Saturday, parish directory 9.30am. Canon David Burrows SSC , 01422 373184, rectorofel - [email protected] BATH Bathwick Parishes , St.Mary’s (bottom of Bathwick Hill), Wednesday 9.30am, Holy Hour, 10am Mass Friday 9.30am, Sat - www.ellandoccasionals.blogspot.co.uk St.John's (opposite the fire station) Sunday - 9.00am Sung Mass at urday 9.30am Mass & Rosary. Fr.Richard Norman 0208 295 6411. FOLKESTONE Kent , St Peter on the East Cliff A Society St.John's, 10.30am at St.Mary's 6.00pm Evening Service - 1st, Parish website: www.stgeorgebickley.co.uk Parish under the episcopal care of the Bishop of Richborough . 3rd &5th Sunday at St.Mary's and 2nd & 4th at St.John's. Con - BURGH-LE-MARSH Ss Peter & Paul , (near Skegness) PE24 Sunday: 8am Low Mass, 10.30am Solemn Mass. Evensong 6pm. tact Fr.Peter Edwards 01225 460052 or www.bathwick - Weekdays - Low Mass: Tues 7pm, Thur 12 noon. parishes.org.uk 5DY A resolution parish in the care of the Bishop of Richborough . Sunday Services: 9.30am Sung Mass (& Junior Church in term http://stpetersfolk.church e-mail :[email protected] BEXHILL on SEA St Augustine’s , Cooden Drive, TN39 3AZ time) On 5th Sunday a Group Mass takes place in one of the 6 GRIMSBY St Augustine , Legsby Avenue Lovely Grade II Saturday: Mass at 6pm (first Mass of Sunday)Sunday: Mass at churches in the Benefice.
    [Show full text]
  • Lewis Carroll - Poems
    Classic Poetry Series Lewis Carroll - poems - Publication Date: 2012 Publisher: Poemhunter.com - The World's Poetry Archive Lewis Carroll(27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898) Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy, and there are societies dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life in many parts of the world, including the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States, and New Zealand. Antecedents Dodgson's family was predominantly northern English, with Irish connections. Conservative and High Church Anglican, most of Dodgson's ancestors were army officers or Church of England clergymen. His great-grandfather, also Charles Dodgson, had risen through the ranks of the church to become Bishop of Elphin. His grandfather, another Charles, had been an army captain, killed in action in Ireland in 1803, when his two sons were hardly more than babies. His mother's name was Frances Jane Lutwidge. The elder of these sons – yet another Charles Dodgson – was Carroll's father. He reverted to the other family tradition and took holy orders. He went to Westminster School, and thence to Christ Church, Oxford. He was mathematically gifted and won a double first degree, which could have been the prelude to a brilliant academic career.
    [Show full text]
  • Knight Letter No. 85
    ^ ^ KNIGHT LETTER ^ ^^ ^ The Lewis Carroll Society ofNorth America Winter 2010 Volume II Issue 15 Number 85 Knight Letter is the official magazine of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America. It is published twice a year and is distributed free to all members. Editorial correspondence should be sent to the Editor in Chief at [email protected]. SUBMISSIONS Submissions for The Rectory Umbrella and Mischmasch should be sent to [email protected]. Submissions and suggestions for Serendipity and Sic Sic Sic should be sent to [email protected]. Submissions and suggestions for From OurFar-Flung Correspondents should be sent to [email protected]. © 2010 The Lewis Carroll Society of North America ISSN 0193-886X Sarah Adams-Kiddy, Editor in Chief Mahendra Singh, Editor, The Rectory Umbrella Sarah Adams-Kiddy ^ Ray Kiddy, Editors, Mischmasch James Welsch 6^ Rachel Eley, Editors, From Our Far-Rung Correspondents Mark Burstein, Production Editor Andrew H. Ogus, Designer THE LEWIS CARROLL SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA President: Mark Burstein, [email protected] Vice-President: Cindy Watte r, [email protected] Secretary: Clare Imholtz, [email protected] www.LewisCarroll . org Annual membership dues are U.S. $35 (regular), $50 (international), and $100 (sustaining). Subscriptions, correspondence, and inquiries should be addressed to: Clare Imholtz, LCSNA Secretary 11935 Beltsville Dr. Beltsville, Maryland 20705 Additional Contributors to This Issue Barbara Adams, Ruth Berman, Angelica Carpenter, Bonnie Hagerman, Alan Tannenbaum, Cindy Watter On the cover: Secret Garden, digital collage by Adriana Peliano. Seepage 21. 1 -^ -^0^ ^ CONTENTS H^ i^y„s^ ^S ^i^"^^^ ^ THe ReCTORY UMBRSLLA OF BOOKS AND THINGS m Livefrom Lincoln Center Evermore Everson 's Everytype! 45 MARK BURSTEIN MARK BURSTEIN Keith Shepard's Wonderland Revisited, Meeting Mr.
    [Show full text]
  • Represented Church Body Library, Dublin MS. 20
    Represented Church Body Library, Dublin MS. 20 Letters to George, 4th viscount (1786 1st marquis) Townshend, lord lieutenant of Ireland, principally from or on behalf of clergy for preferment in Ireland. There are also letters relating to the livings in Townshend’s gift in England, mostly in Norfolk and Suffolk 1767-72 Arranged, listed, indexed and bound for the Library & Ecclesiastical Records Committee by Canon J.B. Leslie, rector of Kilsaran 1899-1951, in 1930s Purchased from Bernard Halliday, bookseller, Leicester, for the Library & Ecclesiastical Records Committee of the General Synod, October 1934 Catalogue list 1. 5 Sept. 1767 R[ichard Robinson, abp of] Armagh, Armagh to [George 4th viscount Townshend] – wishing success to Townshend’s administration. 2. 30 Nov. 1770 R. Armagh, Armagh to [Townshend] – had recommended Brabazon Disney for preb. of Tynan. 3. 23 Nov. 1770 R. Armagh, Armagh to [Townshend] – Brabazon Disney 4. 29 June 1771 R. Armagh, Armagh to [Townshend] – assenting to Mr. Lloyd’s non-residence for a season in Tynan. 5. 15 Nov. 1769 John [Garrett, bp of] Clogher, Leinster Street [Dublin] to [Townshend] – seeks a parl. seat for relative, G. St. George; endorsed by Townshend re opposition and ingratitude of Garrett. 6. 16 Nov 1769 John Clogher, Leinster Street to [Townshend] – St. George. 7. [n.d.] John Clogher, Leinster Street to Mr. Warke – satisfied at his reception at private audience. 8. 13 Jan 1772 John Clogher, Leinster Street to [Townshend] – Craddock’s promotion to abpric. of Dublin. 9. 6 Feb 1772 John Clogher to Mr. Secretary Waite, [Dublin] Castle – re Primate’s objection to Eyton Butts as Dean of Cloyne since he already held two livings.
    [Show full text]