Originally Posted by John Whitworth (Post 300837)

For what it is worth I am quite sure that Dodgson was excited sexually by little girls. I really don't see what that has to do with the quality of his work. I also have no doubt at all that he did not act on his feelings.

What you feel and what you do are quite different things. J.M. Barrie had a thing for little boys and used to share his bed with them. But that was all he shared. I think.

Writers are often quite odd and children's writers perhaps more often than most. Poets of course are madder than a box of frogs.

Originally Posted by Ann Drysdale (Post 300896)

Graham, what's ES? I did google and am none the wiser.

Originally Posted by Lois Elaine Heckman (Post 300899)

Possibly EratoSphere....