Talk:Alice in Verse: The Lost Rhymes of Wonderland
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[edit]I'm moving the section "History of The Lost Rhymes" here, because it lacks a source and includes quotes by the author without a source.
"According to the author, he first learned of the "lost rhymes" from his maternal grandfather, who was "both an Irishman and a storyteller" and known to "put a little polish on a story, from time to time...when he wasn't making one up out of whole cloth." As the story goes, shortly after the death of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson in 1898, rumors began to circulate over a collection of poems that came to be known as the 'lost rhymes'—unpublished poems that allegedly shed more light on the tales of Wonderland and Looking-Glass, such as the identity of the true thief of the Queen's tarts, as well as the fate of the nefarious beach-combing Walrus & Carpenter. The author's dedicated search and eventual "discovery" of The Lost Rhymes is chronicled in the book's engaging and informative introduction, with its If it's not quite what happened in real life, it should have been air a fitting prelude to a book based on Carroll's timeless classic."