%0 Journal Article
%T Crime against Innocence
%A Alicia Rix
%J Opticon1826
%D 2013
%I Ubiquity Press
%R 10.5334/opt.bd
%X Gaynor Arnold¡¯s fictional interpretation of the relationship between Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell (the ¡®real-life¡¯ heroine of the Wonderland books) takes its title from a cruel piece of Through the Looking-Glass (1871) whimsy. The Walrus and the Carpenter lure juvenile oysters away from their beds promising a stroll, and, having eaten them all, weep lustily over their empty shells; Alice pronouncing them ¡®both very unpleasant characters¡¯. Arnold¡¯s own foray into Victorian melodrama likewise concerns a crime against innocence in whose aftermath, like Alice, the reader is obliged to select the most culpable predator from an eccentric and unsympathetic array of creatures.
%U http://www.opticon1826.com/article/view/234