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Lewis Carroll: A Biography
book by Morton N. Cohen
Lewis Carroll: A Biography is a biography of author Lewis Carroll by Morton N. Cohen, first published by Knopf, later by Macmillan.
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It is generally considered to be the definitive scholarly work on Carroll's (real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) life.[1][2][3] Cohen's approach is mainly chronological, with some chapters grouped by theme, such as those on Carroll's religion, his love of little girls, and his guilty feelings.[1][4] Cohen, a Carroll scholar for 30 years,[2] opts to use Dodgson's first name, Charles, throughout the work, because it "seems most appropriate in a book dealing with the intimacy of his life".[5]
The book generally assumes that Carroll's love of little girls was not just emotional but sexual—that he was a paedophile, albeit a suppressed one.
In the book Cohen writes:
"We cannot know to what extent sexual urges lay behind Charles Lewis Carroll: A Biography: Morton N. Cohen: 9781447286134 ... MAGO