She is the author of numerous articles on Lewis Carroll, Victorian culture and science, and the forthcoming Alice Through the Wonderglass: The unexpected histories of a children’s classic (Reaktion 2024), and editor of The Lewis Carroll Review, and the Through the Looking-Glass: A Companion (Peter Lang 2023). Thus, Alice perhaps encourages us to also reconsider how children’s stories are perhaps never 'just' that, when we really, truly reconsider the impression they leave on our childhood minds, and how they from there on shape and accompany us through our lives.įranziska Kohlt is a researcher in 19th-century history of science and literature. Its timelessness lies perhaps in that it is a universally relatable tale encouraging us to question, challenge, and go below the surface of what we see and accept, and be unafraid to confront, and perhaps even dismiss what is thus revealed to us. The multifaceted mind of its author, who died in the same month as his birth in 1898, perhaps sheds a better light on why we are still so fascinated with what turns out to be much more than 'just' a children’s story. A library record showing Alan Turing having taken out Carroll’s books (Photo courtesy of Sherbourne School)
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