Mad Hatter Summer

By Donald Thomas,

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Book description

The man the world knew as Lewis Carroll, author of the adventures of Alice, was known to his colleagues in the Christ Church Common Room as the Reverend C. L. Dodgson, a middle-aged Oxford don. His hobby was photography, especially of pubescent girls 'in their favourite dress of nothing to…

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1 author picked Mad Hatter Summer as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is an imaginative mystery centered on the people who inhabited the world (Oxford and London) of Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) after the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

As an Oxford local historian myself, I think the author captures the atmosphere and detail of Victorian Oxford superbly well and sustains the suspense to the end, as Dodgson becomes embroiled in a series of events that involve him being blackmailed and being treated as a murder suspect.

Many familiar elements of Dodgson's life and many of his real associates are included, and there are numerous subtle nods to the text…

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