I'm looking for Lewis carolls biography where do i find poets biography?

Question

the alice in wonderland author

Answer 1

Here are the seven that have had the most major influence on shaping the present image of Carroll.


Stuart Dodgson Collingwood:
The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll 1898

Langford Reed:
Lewis Carroll 1932

Florence Becker Lennon:
Victoria Through the Looking-Glass 1945

Alexander Taylor:
The White Knight 1952

Derek Hudson: Lewis Carroll, a Biography 1954

Anne Clark:
Lewis Carroll, a Biography 1979

Morton Cohen:
Lewis Carroll a Biography 1995

The last is probably the best - see second link, please.

But for "sensationalism" try In the Shadow of the Dreamchild: A New Understanding of Lewis Carroll (Hardcover)
by Karoline Leach (see third link, please)

"The eponymous "dreamchild" is Alice Liddell, the daughter of Dodgson's dean at Christ College, Oxford, upon whom Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is based and for whom Dodgson assumed the role of attentive father figure. But by studying the "psychological crisis" evident in Dodgson's fragmentary journals (many pages were cut out and destroyed by relatives who feared scandal), Leach suggests Dodgson was more involved with Liddell's wife than with Alice and proposes that the seemingly suggestive photos of young girls that Dodgson took stem, in part, from "strange Victorian child-cult" in which "innocence was expressed ultimately through an affected and devotional love of children." As artfully told as a fine detective story, Leach's account of what truly seems a conspiracy among Dodgson scholars cogently argues that although new materials on Carroll have been released since the late 1970s (his unexpurgated diary, Leach says "is at present being prepared for publication"), the permanent sabotage of many of his papers has made it virtually impossible ever to attain a clear picture of this unusual individual."


For (short) online bios and links to works, criticism, etc., try links 4, 5 and 6.