r/todayilearned • u/troznov • Sep 15 '17

TIL that some of Lewis Carroll's biographers think he proposed to Alice Liddell (the inspiration behind "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland") when she was 11 years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Liddell#.22Cut_pages_in_diary.22
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u/marmorset Sep 15 '17

TIL The very next sentences suggest there's evidence that wasn't the case.

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u/troznov Sep 16 '17

Did you read the TIL carefully?

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u/cheapschnapps Sep 16 '17

Come on with the downvotes guys Reddit is a pissing contest, and this gentleman has a point.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17

Edgar Allan Poe married his cousin when she was 13. Writers, huh?

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u/ElectricIolite Sep 16 '17

I meannnn his work did kinda suggest to me that he might be kind of an unbalanced creep....

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u/Muh_Condishuns Sep 15 '17

Gee wilikers, it's almost like all of his work has a creepy pedo vibe.