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The author of Alice in Wonderland was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Anglican clergyman with a penchant for drawing and photographing prepubescent girls. He always insisted that this preference was entirely aesthetic, and apparently convinced his friends and family that his attachment to pictures of nude female children was free of any eroticism. But given his emotional attachment to very young girls and his “aesthetic appreciation” of their bodies, his assertion that his interest was strictly artistic is, to say the least, suspect. [I could just as easily make this spurious claim about this image of Emma in a similar pose.] Over fifty percent of Dodgson’s surviving photographs depict young girls, and even this figure may be misleading, given that 60% of his original photographic portfolio is now missing. One of his young models was Evelyn Hatch - an eight-year-old child! For obvious reasons, I am reluctant to provide a direct link, but you can Google photographyoflewiscaroll to see how explicit his pictures of such children could be. Today, rightly or wrongly, the author of Alice in Wonderland would be signing the sex-offenders’ register.
The author of Alice in Wonderland was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Anglican clergyman with a penchant for drawing and photographing prepubescent girls. He always insisted that this preference was entirely aesthetic, and apparently convinced his friends and family that his attachment to pictures of nude female children was free of any eroticism. But given his emotional attachment to very young girls and his “aesthetic appreciation” of their bodies, his assertion that his interest was strictly artistic is, to say the least, suspect. [I could just as easily make this spurious claim about this image of Emma in a similar pose.] Over fifty percent of Dodgson’s surviving photographs depict young girls, and even this figure may be misleading, given that 60% of his original photographic portfolio is now missing. One of his young models was Evelyn Hatch - an eight-year-old child! For obvious reasons, I am reluctant to provide a direct link, but you can Google photographyoflewiscaroll to see how explicit his pictures of such children could be. Today, rightly or wrongly, the author of Alice in Wonderland would be signing the sex-offenders’ register.
