Banking On Alice ; Author Lewis Carroll Was a Man of Mystery. Obsessively Secretive, He Covered All His Tracks Except One His Bank Book. Jenny Woolf Tells How She Brought the Writer Out of His Rabbit Hole

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Under his pen name of Lewis Carroll, the enigmatic Oxford University don, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, wrote the Alice books, the most successful children's stories of all time. But he hated anyone knowing about his private life. He never gave interviews, and he'd walk away if anyone mentioned his fame. He was reclusive, said to shun women, and care only for the company of prepubescent girls.

After he died, the mysteries continued - and deepened. His private documents were censored or destroyed, and not one of his ten brothers and sisters ever spoke about him to outsiders. As years went by, myths began to grow around him - that he was a drug addict, a paedophile, even Jack the Ripper.

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Banking On Alice ; Author Lewis Carroll Was a Man of Mystery. Obsessively Secretive, He Covered All His Tracks Except One His Bank Book. Jenny Woolf Tells How She Brought the Writer Out of His Rabbit Hole

Lewis Carroll had hidden himself too well.

But, in the end, there was one thing he forgot.

You can hide from a lot of people - but you can't hide from your bank records. So when I found his personal bank account, unseen for more than a century, I knew this was a great opportunity to le...

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