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Henry Kingsley and Charles Dodgson

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00229741

https://doi.org/10.15002/00007091

法政大学経済学部学会

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2011-02-25

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Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and the novelist Henry Kingsley enjoyed what appears to have been a warm friendship, but the one “fact” that all Carrollians think they know about Henry Kingsley—the anecdote related by Collingwood in The Life and Letter of Lewis Carroll purporting that Kingsley encouraged the publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland— is probably not true, as there is no evidence to support it. Dodgson met Kingsley in 1864 on the Isle of Wight, and later presented him with inscribed copies of Alice, the French and German translations, Phantasmagoria, and most likely, Through the Looking Glass. Kingsley wrote to Dodgson and to Dodgson’s publisher (and his own personal friend), Alexander Macmillan, with generous praise of Dodgson’s books. Most of what we know about the Kingsley-Dodgson friendship comes from these letters and from two Dodgson diary entries. Further, it seems that Dodgson loaned Kingsley £100 when the latter’s literary and personal fortunes were in decline in the early 1870s. The debt was partially repaid, probably from Kingsley’s small estate, after his death from cancer of the trachea and tongue at age 46 in 1876.

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