| Article
Abstract |
| Title |
Letter
to the Editor: The
Queen Victoria Myth
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| Author |
Mark R. Richards
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| Published |
The
Carrollian - Issue 6 (Autumn 2000),
page 64
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| Full
Text |
Most readers of The
Carrollian will be well aware of the legend of Charles Dodgson's having
sent a mathematical treatise to Queen Victoria after she had read Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland and requested any future works by the same author.
Dodgson, of course, denied the story and his postscript to the preface of
the second edition of Symbolic Logic is often quoted. In that
postscript, he uses the phrase 'going the round of the paper' which suggests
that the story had appeared in print on a number of occasions. I would be
interested to know if any reader has come across this anecdote anywhere in
the press, prior to Dodgson's 1896 denial. |
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