Myths are fashionable, especially in biography and other kinds of truth writing. Proponents of the myth of Lewis Carroll say that early biographies of the author distorted the facts of his life, creating a fictionalised version of the man. Lucasta Miller’s The Bronte Myth makes similar claims about earlier books on the Brontes. Outside of [...]
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in the shadow of the dreamchild
Following on from my earlier post about naming myself, I thought I’d do a little series of posts about naming. I’ll start with a subject I’ve been thinking and reading about for some time: Lewis Carroll, and, specifically, the various ways in which biographers have approached the problems presented by his pseudonym. To start with, [...]
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