Talk:Lewis Carroll/Archive 1

Please see my new comment on the Talk:Lewis Carroll page. Hayford Peirce 18:51, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Outline

Themes I'm planning to add are listed below; this is more in the order I plan to write them (or the importance I feel they have), rather than the order they should be read in:

• how he came to write the Alice books
• early childhood experiences
• interest in photography, which gave him the opportunity to meet artistic and literary celebrities
• depth and breadth of his friendships and acquaintances
• interest in the theater
• decision to take up a career which demanded celibacy
  • interest in academia (esp. math)
  • financial security
  • the position it gave him in "society"
• hesitation or refusal to take holy orders
• writings on social issues
• charitable donations
• ways in which biographers viewed him
  • particularly, the changes in how they viewed his attitude toward children
• academic works
• books, pamphlets and games which made logic or math easier for children to learn
• other books for children: The Nursery Alice, Through the Looking-Glass
• his didactic novel Sylvia and Bruno (which apparently was aimed at adults rather than at children, judging by the numbers of copies he gave away to people older than 17)
• perhaps a bit about the times he lived in (although Victorian Era certainly deserves an article of its own)

I'm not promising to write ALL of this myself, but I heard recently that there hasn't been an approved article since October of last year, and this one seems interesting enough - with the Alice (2010) movie out right now. --Ed Poor 19:15, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

I Approved two articles a couple of days ago, Coal being one of them. Hayford Peirce 19:19, 28 April 2010 (UTC)