Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman

Catherine Robson

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List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi INTRODUCTION 3 CHAPTER ONE Of Prisons and ngrown Girls: Wordsworth, De Quincey, and Constructions of the Self of Childhood 16 CHAPTER TWO The Ideal Girl in Industrial England 46 CHAPTER THREE The Stones of Childhood: Ruskin's Lost Jewels 94 CHAPTER FOUR Lewis Carroll and the Little Girl: The Art of Self-Effacement 129 CHAPTER FIVE A New 'Cry of the Children' : Legislating Innocence in the 1880s 154 APPENDIX Lewis Carroll's Letter to the St. James's Gazette, July 22, 1885 195 Notes 199 Works Cited 231 Index 243

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