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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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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In Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, Humpty Dumpty and Alice discuss the poem, ‘Jabberwocky’. The egg explains the word “slithy”: “Well, ‘slithy‘ means ‘lithe and slimy.’ ‘Lithe’ is the same as ‘active.’ You see it’s like a portmanteau – there are two meanings packed up into one word.” Both before and after [...]
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