Family magazines from the Dodgson family

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The family magazines of the Dodgson family originated from around 1845 to 1862 and contain the first works by Lewis Carroll , who at that time still mainly worked under his real name, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. As a teenager he took on the role of editor for various magazines intended for the family circle, he was also an illustrator and provided most of the text contributions in the form of poems and short prose texts. The later magazines already contain newspaper clippings with his works that had appeared in local newspapers and were included in the family magazines. The family magazines were not systematically published until long after Carroll's death.

Useful and Instructive Poetry

Useful and instructive poetry primarily contains poems that end with a moral and was written around 1845. Text and illustrations come exclusively from Carroll, who was around 13 at the time. The play on words of the two homophones " tale " (story) and " tail " (tail) can already be found here , which later also appears in Alice in Wonderland . The work was published as a book in 1954, the original is in the Alfred C. Berol Collection of the Fales Library .

The Rectory Magazine

The parsonage magazine (named after the parsonage in Croft-on-Tees where the family lived) was created around 1845 and contains, in addition to many articles by Lewis Carroll, the content of his aunt Lucy Lutwidge and six of his siblings. Although the writers were mostly younger family members, the magazines targeted the entire family. Nine editions were published over six months, which were then compiled and revised several times. The work contains several sequel stories and poems. The original is in the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin , which published the work in small editions in 1975.

Successor magazines

The rectory magazine other magazines followed: The Comet ( Comet ), The Rosebud ( The Rosebud ), The Star ( The Star ) and The Will-o'-the-Wisp ( The Wisp ), but its contents aloud Carroll not is noteworthy and which were partly destroyed.

The Rectory Umbrella

The rectory screen had more success again and was created from 1849 or 1850. Here, too, there are serial stories, poems and drawings, all by Carroll himself. Some ideas from this magazine can be found in Carroll's later works: This is how the problem of the date line emerges , which he formulated here for the first time, he presented again in the stories with knots and the method for producing black light, which he describes in a footnote, he later took up again in Sylvie and Bruno . Along with mishmash , the magazine was published in 1932, the original is also along with mishmash in Harcourt Amory Collection in the Harvard University .

Mishmash

Mishmash was created between 1855 and 1862, when Carroll was already in Oxford. Here you can find many newspaper clippings with his works that were published in local newspapers. Apart from two poems of his siblings all of the content comes from himself Some of the works included here were later catchment revised his books. So contains hodgepodge an early version of the poem of the accused Herzbuben from Alice in Wonderland , the first stanza of Jabberwocky from Alice behind the mirrors as well as some poems that appeared in Phantasmagoria and Other Poems . A mishmash maze puzzle became known to a wider audience when it was published in Sam Loyd ’s Cyclopedia of 5000 Puzzles, Tricks and Conundrums with Answers .

expenditure

  • Useful and Instructive Poetry. Macmillan, 1954.
  • The Rectory Magazine. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1975. ( online )
  • The Rectory Umbrella and Mischmasch. Cassell & Company, 1932. ( online )
  • The Complete Lewis Carroll. Wordsworth, 1999. ISBN 1-85326-496-2 . ( online , PDF, 38.19 MB; contains some of the works from the magazines)
  • Literary works - 2. Misch & Masch: stories and poems. Translated into German by Dieter H. Stündel. Häusser Verlag, Darmstadt, 1996. ISBN 3-89552-014-4 . (contains a large part of the family magazines in addition to other works)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lewis Carroll: Mischmasch. (Preface)
  2. ↑ Useful and Instructive Poetry. Retrieved March 6, 2017 (English).
  3. ↑ Guide to The Alfred C. Berol Collection of Lewis Carroll , accessed December 9, 2014
  4. ^ Charles Lutwidge Dodgson: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center , accessed December 10, 2014
  5. ↑ Collection: Harcourt Amory collection of Lewis Carroll , accessed October 22, 2019