Dobson, Malcolm wrote:
> Depends who the audience is - children? the general public? academics
> ("scholars")? You talk about a "resource for students and scholars" -
> does this mean that it would be used in a structured setting - eg by
> teachers in a class, or in an unstructured way, by being simply made
> available through libraries.
Jenny Woolf has discovered the bank account of the Rev. C.L. Dodgson. She
has published a complete transcription of it with notes and introduction
(Lewis Carroll in his Own Account, Jabberwock Press, 2005). Her article in
the TLS ("Sounds and sense: The Looking Glass secrets of Lewis Carroll's
bank account", TLS No5315 (11 February 2005), pp.14-15) describes the story
that the bank account tells, and makes the point that it is the only major
uncensored document about him that is known. So, the book will be of
interest to serious scholars of the works of Lewis Carroll, the life of the
Rev. C.L. Dodgson, and the relationship between the two. They will be
"academics" in the broadest sense, mostly teachers and advanced students of
English literature. I read the article - apparently the only one on the
list to do so, which rather reinforces the point that librarians no longer
read the TLS since it ceased to carry librarian vacancies - visited the
website (http://www.jabberwock.co.uk) and made my own judgement on the
appropriate response - why Julian Dawson chose to jump down my throat is a
bit of a mystery.
The only thing I would add is that the website really must include the ISBN
of the book - librarians are used to ordering from strange sources (or
getting their suppliers to do so), but get a bit twitchy without an ISBN.
John Briggs
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