News at Eleven: Although the Oxford that Lewis Carroll

inhabited is certainly quaint, with its carriages and crinolines, it is by no means unrecognizable. Its inhabitants wore clothes not unlike our clothes and read many of the books that we still read. We are culturally, if not always literally, largely their descendents, and so it is especially easy for us to imagine that we understand the way they thought. We don't, says Woolf in her new book, "The Mystery of Lewis Carroll," especially when it comes to certain subjects. Like, for instance, naked little girls.

from The Boston Globe: Go ask Alice

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