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Lewis Carroll
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Arts, Music & MediaWho is Lewis Carroll in the Agency editorial?
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) is the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the English author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Issue.14 names him once, in the author's prose, in the passage on the band Oasis, where a line of a lyric is said to be a possible reference to the second book.
In short
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) is the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the English author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871). In the Agency editorial he appears in a single sentence of Issue.14, the edition about music. Commenting on the Oasis line "The answer's in the looking glass", the author writes that it can very much be a reference to Carroll's book Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, published in 1871, which according to the edition coined the meaning "the opposite of what is normal or expected".
Key facts
- Who was Lewis Carroll?
- The pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), the English author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
- Where does the Agency editorial name Lewis Carroll?
- In Issue.14, in one sentence of the passage on Oasis, as a comment on a line of a lyric the edition quotes.
- What does Issue.14 say about him?
- That the line may be a reference to his book Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, of 1871. The author presents it as a possibility, not as a fact.
Who was Lewis Carroll?
Lewis Carroll is the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an English writer and mathematician born in 1832 who died in 1898. He wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871). These facts come from outside the edition and are marked for verification; the title and the year of the second book are also given by the edition.
How does Lewis Carroll appear in Issue.14?
Issue.14 is about music, and its passage on Oasis quotes lyrics of the band and comments on them. After an excerpt that ends with the line "The answer's in the looking glass", the author writes that the line can very much be a reference to Lewis Carroll's book Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, published in 1871. He adds that the book coined the meaning "the opposite of what is normal or expected". That sentence is the only mention of Carroll in the editions.
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