This new biography of
Carroll by leading international authority, Edward Wakeling, presents a
fresh appraisal of the man based upon his social circle. Contrary to the
claims of many previous authors, Carroll's circle was not child
centered: his correspondence was enormous, numbering almost 100,000
items at the time of his death, and included royalty and many of the
leading artists, illustrators, publishers, academics, musicians and
composers of the Victorian era. Edward Wakeling draws upon his personal
database of nearly 6,000 letters, mostly never before published, to fill
the gaps left by earlier biographies and resolve some of the key myths
that surround Lewis Carroll, such as his friendships with children and
his drug-taking. Essential reading for scholars and admirers of one of
the key authors of the Victorian age.
Overall, I thought this was a very well written biography on Lewis Carroll. He was a much more complex man than expected.
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