Timeline for What is in the background of Father William balancing an eel on his nose?
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| 2 days ago | comment | added | PJTraill | I wonder if it is notable enough. Also, I could ask the same question for each the other poems in the book and anyone with The Annotated Alice —or, probably, a search engine— could answer them trivially, and perhaps I would not have done enough research before asking! | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | Clara Díaz Sanchez | @PJTraill Would you like to ask that as a question maybe? Comments are very impermanent. | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | Clara Díaz Sanchez | @PJTraill "... a clever parody of Robert Southey's (1774-1843) long- forgotten didactic poem, The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them." | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | PJTraill | Does Martin Gardner say whether Father William is a parody of some specific poem, and, if so, which? | |
| Dec 6 at 13:22 | comment | added | Buzz | An actual photograph of a nineteenth-century eel trap very, very similar to the one shown in Tenniel's illustration, may be found here: historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/education/… | |
| Dec 6 at 11:59 | history | edited | Clara Díaz Sanchez | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 6 at 10:48 | history | edited | Clara Díaz Sanchez | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 6 at 10:38 | comment | added | quantropy | Thanks. It seems that eel traps were common on the River Thames (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel_buck), and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was invented on a boat trip on the Thames, so it makes sense. It looks like some still exist on the river Test in Hampshire | |
| Dec 6 at 10:28 | history | edited | Clara Díaz Sanchez | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 6 at 10:28 | vote | accept | quantropy | ||
| Dec 6 at 10:19 | history | answered | Clara Díaz Sanchez | CC BY-SA 4.0 |