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    Is it true that Lewis Carroll wrote 'Alice in Wonderland' whilst standing up?

    Question #90711. Asked by crazycube. (Jan 04 08 7:35 AM)


    Smokeylicious

    		Lewis Carroll and Ernest Hemingway both wrote while standing.

    http://www.inklingsbookstore.com/archives.html

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland

    Jan 04 08, 7:40 AM
    BRY2K

    		While there is likely little "proof" that Carroll wrote his classic novel whilst standing, it is certainly within the realm of possibility.

    I found this enrty quite interesting:

    "In the 19th century it was common to write standing up at a writing desk, leaning on a high stool. Thus we find that (presumably amongst many others) Lewis Carroll, Winston Churchill, Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway*, Thomas Jefferson, Fernando Pessoa, George Sand and Virginia Woolf all wrote standing up. And Philip Roth does today."

    http://rodcorp.typepad.com/rodcorp/2005/02/how_we_work_wri.html

    Jan 04 08, 7:58 AM

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