He's love for story tellign arose from having to entertain hes younger sblings. -
soon become aparent that this was the company he felt compfortable arround.
-This was where he could recive the attention he felt he never got being one of
- the elderest in a big family, leading to hes desire to be around children instead
-Of adults throughout hes adult life/
"Girls offered him a non-judgemental and non-sexual female "Although he was attracted to women, celibacy was a condition of Carroll's job [a condition imposed on certain Oxford academics at the time] and he believed that having sex was against God's wishes for him."
But Carroll was living at a time when childhood innocence was being forged, influencing how children were represented in 19th Century literature aimed at them.
Carroll's interest in young female innocence is explained by some of the experts as one that invoked desire, but not necessarily sexual
Carroll suffered from a bad stammer, but he found himself vocally fluent when speaking with children.
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