Let's not forget illustrator John Tenniel, who created the perfectly realized images of Alice's world.

Cut to the chase...hiding in plain sight !

Had the relatives not cut those pages, we would have been able  to know the man better than we know the artist!

I like that they're very balanced on the discussion of what exactly his attraction was to little girls. They give all the evidence on both sides and agree that there's literally no way to know and that there's evidence to back up many different interpretations.

Alice in Wonderland.  When "it was all just a dream" wasn't an over used trope yet.

I study a few foreign languages, so when the guy showed  the numerous, varied  language editions of Alice / W, I wanted to leap through the screen,  to look  closely  at those editions!!!

Why is there no mention of his close friendship with George MacDonald and his family? A friendship that lasted many years.

Just some thoughts on that infamous "photo of Lorina Liddell":  I've just looked again at the section with the "forensic expert" who says his feeling is that that photo is Lorina Liddell.  Based on what he says, I can't imagine anyone hiring him as an expert because so much of what he claims is obviously contradicted by the photos right in front of him:
No, the lines of the eyebrows are NOT the same.  In all photos of Lorina Liddell, from childhood through adulthood  -- and this "expert" only looked at two, although many more exist -- her eyebrows are clearly higher above the eyes and much more noticeably arched.  In the photo of the other girl, the eyebrows are fairly flat.
No, the areas above the eyelids are obviously NOT the same.  In all photos of Lorina the "hooded" look he mentions shows her entire upper eyelids.  In the photo of the other girl, the lids are almost completely hidden by the fold of skin under the eyebrows.
Also, this "expert" failed to notice that Lorina clearly had very light-colored eyes, while the girl in the photo has dark eyes.

So while those experts' "gut feelings" might tell them one thing, they're worthless because other people's equally valid gut feelings say the opposite.  Edward Wakeling was an expert on Carroll's photography and he determined it wasn't by Carroll.
In fact, the experts at the Musee Cantini itself, which holds the photo, have determined the photo is NOT by Lewis Carroll .  For some reason the filmmakers neglected to mention that pretty crucial fact in their documentary.  Talking about the museum, but then not telling us what its official stance on the matter is, and how it arrived at it, is, frankly, dishonest.
(Also not mentioned in the documentary:  Some analysts have speculated that that photo was not intended as "pornography" at all, but to document a medical condition, perhaps of the spine.)

SO ... to repeat again:  That photo's ONLY tenuous connection to Lewis Carroll seems to be an inscription made at some unknown time ... by some unknown person ... for some unknown reason ... in a country to which Carroll had no known connection.  (And before ending up in that museum, the photo apparently belonged to a gallery that was attempting to sell it.)  Since the inscription's identification of the subject as Lorina Liddell is pretty clearly wrong, the attribution to Lewis Carroll must also be considered equally suspect.

We are all mad here .....................So True.

No matter what the timeline is, I don't think any children should be photographed that way

my great great grandfather was Theophillus Carter - He was allegedly the inspiration for the Mad Hatter

I hate how the majority of alice in wonderland fans shown here are just fans of the 1951 / tim Burton films and not the actual book

this great  granddaughter looks alot like Alice.

Michael Jackson and Mark Twain also caught too much weird projection when they simply got along with kids.

8:01 Liddell did Alice know...

I was in Oxford in 1995. Too much to see.

Absolutely love this story and the entire original film from 1915! It's incredible! Please find and watch for yourself. Film history! Beautiful music too

Lewis Carroll wasn't the only author. Even the author of Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie, faced similar accusation of inappropriate behavior towards children...

By the way, he was a multitalented person - writing, drawings, photography, as well as mathematics.

I think the best evidence is the Liddell mother's feelings towards Dodgson/Carroll. He was a dear friend and then suddenly he was cast out of their circle. It obviously had something to do with her daughters. I think it's fairly compelling that the mother, who lived in the Victorian age and shared the sensibilities of that era, was uncomfortable enough to take such extreme measures. If he was an undesirable suitor of an eligable daughter, they had polite ways of dealing with that didnt usually include banning the person from the house. I think she caught him doing something inapropriate and thus took steps to keep him away from the girls. The children might not have understood what was going on and just saw Dodgson as a friend, not realizing the greater scope of the situation. If the photograph in France is actually real, that might have been the reason.  Obviously we will never know but the destroyed pages of his diary do not speak to his innocence, especially since the missing pages are from the time when he was visiting the Liddells and just after their falling out.