I don’t think Lewis Carroll was mentally ill or on drugs. He was simply a literary genius who had a great imagination. By training, he was also a gifted mathematician and logician. I do believe, however, that the man had an unusual attraction to young girls. He spent a lot of time with the Liddell children, and Alice Liddell became the source of inspiration for Alice in Alice in Wonderland. Alice was only 10 years old, but Mr.Carroll spent a lot of time with the girl and was often seen caressing and kissing the child. In fact, it is reported he proposed marriage to young Alice, and that this fact was written in his diary, but later the pages to the diary were mysteriously torn out and destroyed. He is well known for taking many photographs of young girls as well as boys, and many times the children were naked. Mr. Carroll never married or had a close relationship with any mature woman, despite being quite a handsome man and in his 30s at the time. So his reputation as a pedophile is not too far-fetched. But in those days, they didn’t really acknowledge such things. They just saw the nice man as a “friend of the family.” Lol.
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