How, through the written word, we can communicate forever. That's a great thing.

thank you for an excellent, factual and balanced account of Lewis Carol and the Alice books. Modern readers often make the mistake of viewing the story through modern eyes and ideas. We should look at those events through the glasses of that time.

@MrParkerman6

Жыл бұрын

No we shouldn't, dumbass.

@sabineb.5616

7 ай бұрын

ferdi, you are right! I hate when biographers try to turn Lewis Caroll into a closet pedophile! It's actually a little known fact that Lewis Carrol had a few affairs with several mature women! I think that Lewis Caroll was attracted to young girls - which wasn't exactly unique in the 19th century - because of their perceived innocence and the lack of sexual tension.

@maddexq9107

4 ай бұрын

Pedophiles have been known to have relationships w/ mature women as beards, or to give access to their true targets, duh…🙄

@conniekampas7074

3 ай бұрын

I agree. Think of the times..

This one is even better than most documentaries I have seen about Lewis Carroll. Thank you. ❤️ His fairy tale books are interesting, mmmm

very good documentry, one of the better ones. wished that all of his papers and mememtos weren't gone to enjoy in a museum. that would be very interesting to see and read.

Many thanks for this wonderful and enlightening documentary. I have read that Charles Dodson suffered from severe migraine attacks which may have contributed to visual hallucinations leading to characters in the stories. Irrespective, his stories have delighted children and adults alike all.over the world and certainly have inspired many children's songs l.have composed. Thank you once again for this articulate and very detailed documentary.

Another fantastic documentary! I am loving these. THANK YOU!!!!

Rich…is the gravy…of these documentaries….an education of the finest kind….for all persons….wishing to better their literative faculties…and their mind!

@jonp3890

Ай бұрын

Hey, that rhymes!

Thank you so much Mr. Jones.

The Rev. Charles Dodgson on the new belfry of Christ Church, Oxford that he was attempting to photograph Its chief merit is its simplicity-a simplicity so pure, so profound, in a word, so simple, that no other word will fitly describe it. The meagre outline, and baldness of detail, of the present Chapter, are adopted in humble imitation of this great feature.

Was it not "A WASP in a wig?" that Tenniel found to be too much of an artistic challenge?

Peter Morgan Jones, thanks for your wonderful narration and writing Lewis Carroll in this video!!! Could you do one on the author O. Henry?

@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you...I live in Greensboro NC and every year we celebrate the life of O Henry by producing his most famous stories, especially at Christmas! We still preserve the Drugstore -Pharmacy of his family.

@JJW77

2 жыл бұрын

@@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401 - O Henry is one of my favorite author from my childhood. I would love to visit Greensboro, NC one day during one of his celebrations. Thank you... It would be a thrill to take a picture in front of his family Drugstore-Pharmacy.

@elinecapell7971

Жыл бұрын

2²1878.0!

Does anyone know the name/composer of the music played in the opening?

I loved this! How do you feel about the awful BBC documentary made seemingly only to sensationalise the rumors and lessen the legacy of Lewis Carroll? It's one of the few things that actively upsets me and that is because of how the nonesense in the "documentary" has become known as fact by the average person. Even the weird history Channel states these misconceptions as fact and no one seemed to correct them. Thank you again!

@mrunning10

Жыл бұрын

The O|WNER of the posted vids must do this, it does not violate any KZread user agreements to LIE as long as its posted as "opinion" AKA Fox "News"

Meh. We can never know to what extent "Carol's" interest in the girls was inappropriate. The fact that there was a definite break in the relationship, that contemporaneous diary pages were destroyed, and that the sisters later wrote to each other cryptically referencing some sort of incident certainly hints something was up that was considered problematic even at that time -- no "historical context" required. Frankly, his supposed interest in the daughters' governess would not have been considered an issue. Governesses enjoyed an elevated status in Victorian/Edwardian households, and the match in and of itself would not be out of line with norms. Maybe we have to accept that some artists/writers whose worrk we enjoy weren't necessarily great human beings, rather than try to explain away or whitewash their behavior. If we can still appreciate their work, fine. If not, there are others to enjoy.

@mrunning10

Жыл бұрын

What is constantly lost is the break in the relationship was with the MOTHER.

Incredible narration of Percy Bysshe Shelley's life and times, poetry and works. Thank you.

Why IS a raven like a writing desk? Inquiring Minds would like to know.

@AuthorDocumentaries

2 жыл бұрын

LOL, the jury's still out on that one

@Dr_Armstrong

2 жыл бұрын

Because Edgar Allen Poe wrote on both!

@Dr_Armstrong

2 жыл бұрын

Carroll's unanswered riddles are so brilliant, though

@thomasandersen2534

2 жыл бұрын

Quite the puzzle indeed.

@petehill7280

2 жыл бұрын

Because it can produce a few notes, although they are VERY flat, and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front.

" Now at the very end of our long list I introduce you to two books of which I think you must have already tasted: Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, and the eighth is Alice Through the Looking Glass. Both are nonserious, that’s why I love them. Both are written for children, that’s why I immensely respect them. Both are full of beauty, grandeur, mystery and small parables which can be understood on many many levels. I have always loved one parable, for example.... Alice comes to the King - or perhaps it was the Queen, it does not matter - and the King asks Alice, “Did you meet my messenger coming towards me on the way?” Alice says, “I met nobody, sir.” The King then says, “Then he must have reached here by now.” Alice could not believe her ears, but just out of respect, amazed, Alice still remained silent, quite an English lady. Alice must have been a perfect English lady. Out of formality she did not even giggle. She had said that she had met nobody, and the King thinks that she had met somebody called Nobody. My God, he thinks that Nobody is a man, that Nobody is somebody...! Again Alice says, “Sir, did I not tell you that I met nobody? Nobody is nobody!” The King laughed and said, “Yes, of course nobody is nobody, but why has he not arrived yet?” Such beautiful small parables in both the books, Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass. And the most strange fact to remember is that Lewis Carroll was not the real name...because he was a mathematician and a schoolmaster; hence he used a pseudo-name. But what a calamity, the pseudonym has become a reality to the whole world and the real man is completely forgotten. It is strange that a mathematician and schoolmaster could write such beautiful books. You will wonder why I am including them. I am including them because I want to say to the world that to me, Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness and Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland are all the same. It does not matter. In fact, if I have to choose between the two I will choose Alice in Wonderland and throw Being and Nothingness in the ocean, so far away in the Pacific that nobody will find it again. To me these two small books have great spiritual value. Yes, I’m not joking...I mean it."

Read “Three Men in a boat, not to mention the dog”

We’ll done Mr. Peter Jones. Wonderful story of Lewis Carroll’s life. He was a genius who loved children and life❣️

A strange man, but Brit society was strange then. Maybe still is. Great writer, though.

HE WAS MY MUMS RELATIVE

Glad to know C. D. was " developing the best manly traits".

I can’t decide if his nude photos of her were innocent for the times or not. But I believe her mother cut off contact between the two. He definitely was enchanted by little Alice.

@rustyshackleford5409

Жыл бұрын

He was a pedo no doubt

@japonaliya

Жыл бұрын

While there is some evidence to suggest a "romantic" infatuation to Alice Liddell, it is doubtful he wanted to marry her or was attracted to her sexually. New evidence suggests that Dodgson was gender dysphoric and his attachment to girl children was an attempt to reestablish the "girlhood innocence" he experienced growing up with 7 sisters. Dodgson did not "love" Alice and his other child friends in the common sense. He wanted to be a girl, to BE Alice!!!! Even as far back as his boarding school days, the other boys sensed this, as well as the students he taught at Christ Church. His poem Solitude, written at 19 after the death of his mother, is a homage to lost childhood. Interestingly, he ends the poem about being a child for one bright summer's day. At the end of Alice in Wonderland, the narrator introduces the same theme,.. "Glad with the dream of Wonderland of long ago.... and the happy summer days" Dodgson was a romantic little girl in a Victorian gentleman's body. The fact that this was deeply repressed, and no words describing transgenderism had yet been thought of, is the thing that saved him from going mad.

@mrunning10

Жыл бұрын

@@rustyshackleford5409 HORSESHIT, no doubt. Read his mind did you?

@mrunning10

Жыл бұрын

​@@japonaliya We must separate the "pedo" modern day thinking from a simple fact: Charles Dodgson was in love with Alice Liddell. A man who takes such time and detail to write that book, hand draw the pictures, and then ask permission of mum to present it to her? LOVE. Why can't we accept this?

@TheCandiceWang

6 ай бұрын

The teenage lorina nude with breasts shown definitely not innocent!

Wish they hadn't ripped those 4 pages out...i want to know the real truth...lolol...despite that i still like lewis Carroll and his works

I remember this book and it's a live action movie on Disney plus.

FORTUNATE TO.HEAR ALL HIS PERSONALS PAPERS, DIARIES WERE BURNED. HEAVENS SENT. IF NOT.SO, WE WILL BE STILL HEARING, OPINIONS OF TOO MANY, ANALYZING HIDDEN MEANINGS IN THOSE.NOTES ... LEWIS CARROLL WORLD, NOT A FANTASY, ONLY ANOTHER REALITY. sorry caps old lady fingers..

He might be an artist of genius BUT I think his interest in children was not healthy.

Question do thank that Lewis Carroll and was a p,, Or do you think It was a rumour to discredit him because heera secretly Gay?

@AuthorDocumentaries

2 жыл бұрын

I can't say for certain. But personally, I don't think he viewed himself as a sexual being.

@unlimiteddream792

2 жыл бұрын

He wasn't a pedo and he wasn't gay. The latter is a random fan theory (seems so) and not fitting at all. The pedo rumors are obviously false and a result of misinformation. In real life, Carroll even supported certain charities to fight with crimes against women and children.

@unlimiteddream792

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t think it’s reasonable at all to throw assumptions like “secretly gay” because some modern audience would like it. People researching his life already have to deal with many false assumptions and rumors from later decades, which have nothing to do with actual evidence, like the pedophilia “theory” - a groundless rumor stemming from Freudian psychoanalysis, misunderstanding of Victorian Era and omitting many facts from his life. Please be careful of your words. I see many people see nowadays sexuality as an important part of their identity nowadays but let’s be careful with those who are long dead and whose opinion we can’t hear.

@unlimiteddream792

2 жыл бұрын

@@AuthorDocumentaries please take a look at my other comments.

@unlimiteddream792

2 жыл бұрын

It IS certain he wasn’t what certain people made him to seem like.

tedious

@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401

2 жыл бұрын

Learning usually is...that's why few scholars exist today. Limited attention span and memory retention! Our diets do not help! This post is marvelous because of details gleaned from unusual sources!!

Disturbing man with a disturbing "hobby". Disturbingly defended, with the - others were doing it too - argument. Shame on them also, and shame on the narrator for defending him. I found his sneering barbs, at anyone that dare judge Carroll for his child abuse, unbelievable offensive.

@unlimiteddream792

2 жыл бұрын

Lewis Carroll didn't abuse children. I hope you're as good in exposing REAL predators, online for example, as you are in writing superficial comments. Whether they're rich or not, protected by some newly-won privileges or not, they're among us and it scares me. Now do something good AND show that you really care for the safety of children in our society. Because there are people and groups who want to take advantage of them...

@unlimiteddream792

2 жыл бұрын

Don't get me started on John Money for example... A REAL evil person and still not enough people acknowledge it...

@mrunning10

2 жыл бұрын

There is NO evidence even hinted or circumstantial that Dodgson ever abused, threatened, molested, coerced, connived, cajoled, or set up an instance of behavioral misconduct; misconduct defined in HIS time or OURS. Defending no evidence for sure, because there is no evidence.

@ktgiffin8147

2 жыл бұрын

@@unlimiteddream792 John Money was an absolutely disgusting person. What bothers me is the fact that he's still upheld as some kind of serious scientist when he was really just an unbridled pervert who thought he was God.

@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401

2 жыл бұрын

You obviously have some deep-seated problem of your own if you find impropriety within the Dodson relationship with children. I think of all the responsible company men who were entrusted with us little hellions while my parents visited with tobacco farmers..I remember well the only pop on my 10 yr old bottom, delivered by the Foreman for endangering myself following my brothers !! We loved and trusted those people implicitly!