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爱丽丝漫游仙境原作者卡罗尔（Lewis Carroll），其真实名字原来是Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
最近拍卖的一封由卡罗尔于 1891年写给朋友的亲笔信（当时《爱丽丝》已出版了26年），显示：
--收信的朋友叫 Anne Symonds
--卡罗尔痛恨坊间读者因其著作而得知他真实的名字
--名气令他常被陌生人认出，甚至被当作是“狮子”
--希望自己从来没出版过任何书。
这封信件将于下月连同以下照片一起拍卖，拍卖价料逾 4000英镑。
1863年，卡罗尔与友人的女儿 AliceLiddell 一起去郊游和划船，在途中给这个小女孩讲了这个故事，后来卡罗尔把这个故事写成了《爱丽丝漫游仙境》。因为卡罗尔与这个女孩的特殊关系，2008年有人就卡罗尔的另一封书信，推断这个一生独身的作者，其实是一个恋童癖患者。
Alice in BLUNDERLAND: Previously unseen letter to a closefriend reveals Lewis Carroll hated the fame his classic book brought
His classic tales have been lovedby generations of children the world over.
But Alice in Wonderland authorLewis Carroll once revealed he wished he had never written his popular books,because he hated the fame their success brought.
In a previously unseen letter toa close friend, the famously private author, whose real name was CharlesLutwidge Dodgson, discussed his ‘intense hate’ of being recognised bystrangers.
The handwritten note was pennedin 1891, almost 30 years after the publication of his most celebrated literarywork.
It is addressed to Anne Symonds,the widow of eminent Oxford surgeon Frederick Symonds, and was written in hisrooms at Christ Church college where he was a mathematics don.
A prolific letter writer, he toldMiss Symonds how he hated his correspondence falling into the hands ofcollectors, who might identify him as Lewis Carroll.
‘All that sort of publicityleads to strangers hearing of my real name in connection with the books, and tomy being pointed out to, and stared at by strangers, and treated as a 'lion'.
‘And I hate all that sointensely that sometimes I almost wish that I had never written any books atall.’
The letter, written in November1891, was penned 26 years after the publication of Alice in Wonderland, when hewas 59.
It is owned by a privatecollector and is expected to fetch up to £4,000 when it is auctioned at Bonhamsnext month, 116 years after the author’s death.
Dodgson was notoriously shy andoften refused to sign autographs. In the later stages of his career, he wouldsend collectors who contacted him about his work a printed note denying anyconnection with Lewis Carroll.
He wrote Alice in Wonderland after telling stories to a girl named AliceLiddell while on picnics and boating trips with her family.
Her father was Dean of ChristChurch college and Dodgson was a close friend of the family until there was amysterious cooling of relations in 1863, when she was 11.
In 2008, another letter from Dodgson came to light in which the lifelongbachelor appeared to address speculation about whether he was a paedophile.
