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Lewis Carroll
Apr. 8th, 2015 08:52 am‘A vision of innocence was not always the same as an innocent vision.’
-- Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Mr. Fairhurst is the author of a new book on Lewis Carroll and his dubious fondness for little girls, "The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland". He does not seem to be saying anything really new, and nothing so scandalous and concrete that would have the famous logician in handcuffs and carted off to jail, but he hits the subject hard.
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Douglas-Fairhurst reminds us of the work of W.T. Stead, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, who in 1885 conducted secret search into a concealed network of brothels and locked rooms that stretched out across London, where young virgins were ‘served up as dainty morsels to minister to the passions of the rich’. Stead quotes a brothel-keeper who assured him that ‘as the walls are thick’ and there was ‘a double carpet on the floor’ any girl he chose ‘may scream blue murder, but not a sound will be heard’.
-- A. S. Byatt, "Stolen kisses and naked girls: there is much to wonder about in Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland" in The Spectator
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-- Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Mr. Fairhurst is the author of a new book on Lewis Carroll and his dubious fondness for little girls, "The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland". He does not seem to be saying anything really new, and nothing so scandalous and concrete that would have the famous logician in handcuffs and carted off to jail, but he hits the subject hard.
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Douglas-Fairhurst reminds us of the work of W.T. Stead, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, who in 1885 conducted secret search into a concealed network of brothels and locked rooms that stretched out across London, where young virgins were ‘served up as dainty morsels to minister to the passions of the rich’. Stead quotes a brothel-keeper who assured him that ‘as the walls are thick’ and there was ‘a double carpet on the floor’ any girl he chose ‘may scream blue murder, but not a sound will be heard’.
-- A. S. Byatt, "Stolen kisses and naked girls: there is much to wonder about in Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland" in The Spectator
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