at he befriended. He makes many references to the three girls in the Alice books, using their last name as a play on words by calling them “the three ‘little’ girls”. He would often disguised their first names by calling them Elise, Tillie, Lacie. Elise for L.C. (Lorina Charlotte), Tillie came from Edith’s nickname, Matilda, and the rearranging the letters in Alice can result in Lacie. When he talked of himself he would use the name Dodo, because,with his stammered he pronounced his given name(Charles LIdwig Dodgeson) Do-Do-Dogdeson.He would often keep in touch with the children as they grew older, by way of mail. He would write to them and they would write back. In fact, the only reason why Carroll got The Adventures of Alice In Wonderland published was because of a suggestion from Alice Liddell , in one of her letters.Carroll suffered from a slight stutter, and he tended to be shy and with-drawn in the company of adults, but given the opportunity to converse with a child,he would open up. He was able to be himself, maybe, because the children didn’t seem to notice that his physical features weren’t perfectly symmetrical, or that he walked with a hobble, nor did they care. He never talked down to a child,and he never doubted their intelligence, to him they were the greatest of equals. Lewis Carroll changed the way the world views children’s literature. In the Victorian time period it was common for a children’s author to pack their literature with page,after page of devout morals. However, with the publication of Carroll’s The Adventures of Alice In Wonderland in 1865, he single-handedly turned Victorian moralism upside-down. Up until that time, all children’s books had tried to teach kids too much a little too soon. The books tended to speak down to children, in an attempt to moralized them, so that as they grew older they would know how to maintain, wha...
