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This author speaks about stereotypes of writers in Victorian time, and then continues to use modern stereotypes about all writers being eccentric and strange, like they don't belong to the world in this or other way. Writers are people like everyone else.

This author is obsessed with who authors slept with or wished to sleep with and is always looking for sadistic elements in their works. Like... One star incoming.

"Alice was not much liked by children when it first came out."

I must admit I hated it as a child and I don't like it to this day.

"Einstein was under no obligation to express his theory of relativity as E = mc^2; he might just as well have said, had he chosen different symbols, that 'Cheese=Jam Mustard^2."

What is wrong with you? He might NOT. I am losing any respect for this author. Your lack of knowledge is showing while you try to sound like a smart-ass.

What is this ridiculous positivism which is also very questionable?

Why are Brits so obsessed with Water-Babies as this perfect Victorian children's work while rest of the world probably never heard of it?

"Wordsworth's child, trailing clouds of glory, had been put to a use that
Wordsworth himself certainly did not have in mind."

How hypocritical, like anything new criticism has to say has anything to do with what author of the past had in mind.

Referring to LILITH by George MacDonald: [It's] vision of evil-as-good and good-as-evil, it's wild, uncontrollable symbolism, and its hotchpotch of gnostic religions and sinister folklore, is evidence of a mind in disintegration. One is not surprised to learn that soon after LILITH was published, MacDonald drew into total silence, not speaking even to members of his family.

As I'm going through I'm seeing some author biases flavor the text that have me rolling my eyes but it does provide a good overview of the lives of these authors so far

[Lear] described himself as one of those 'who believe that God the Creator is greater than a Book, and that millions unborn are to look up to higher thoughts than those stereotyped by ancient legends, gross ignorance, and hideous bigotry.'