tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18996311.post4513476101199289722..comments2024-03-26T15:10:55.199-05:00Comments on The Royal Blog of Oz: Dorothy in Wonderland; Alice and the WizardJayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03766446206846532440noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18996311.post-5058170420949567942010-03-07T08:12:18.849-06:002010-03-07T08:12:18.849-06:00Thanks for highlighting these Oz-Wonderland connec...Thanks for highlighting these Oz-Wonderland connections, Jared and Sam.<br /><br />L. Frank Baum wrote about Alice in Wonderland in his essay “Modern Fairy Tales” (The Advance, August 19, 1909; reprinted in Hearn's 1983 Wizard of Oz Critical Heritage Edition):<br /><br />Singularly enough, we have no recognized author of fairy literature between Andersen's day and that of Lewis Carroll, the quaint and clever old clergyman who recorded Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Carroll's method of handling fairies was as whimsical as Andersen's was reverential, yet it is but fair to state that the children loved Alice better than any prince or princess that Andersen ever created. The secret of Alice's success lay in the fact that she was a real child, and any normal child could sympathize with her all through her adventures. The story may often bewilder the little one--for it is bound to bewilder us, having neither plot nor motive in its relation--but Alice is doing something every moment, and doing something strange and marvelous, too; so the child follows her with rapturous delight. It is said that Dr. Dodgson, the author, was so ashamed of having written a child's book that he would only allow it to be published under the pen name of Lewis Carroll; but it made him famous, even then, and "Alice in Wonderland," rambling and incoherent as it is, is one of the best and perhaps the most famous of all modern fairy tales.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com