He's
love
for story tellign
arose from having to entertain hes younger sblings. -
soon
become aparent that
this was the company he felt compfortable arround.
-This was where he could recive the
attention he felt he never got being one of
- the elderest in a big family, leading to hes
desire to be around children instead
-Of adults throughout hes
adult life/
"Girls
offered him a non-judgemental and
non-sexual female "Although
he was attracted to women, celibacy was a condition of Carroll's job [a
condition imposed on certain Oxford academics at the time] and he believed that
having sex was against God's wishes for him."
But
Carroll was living at a time when childhood innocence was being forged,
influencing how children were represented in 19th Century literature aimed at
them.
Carroll's
interest in young female innocence is explained by some of the experts as one
that invoked desire, but not necessarily sexual
Carroll
suffered from a bad stammer, but he found himself vocally fluent when speaking
with children.
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