Article: Lewis Carroll's Girls Play Dusty Charade In His Looking Glass.(Arts&Entertainment)

Byline: Hilton Kramer

It's no longer news that the Victorians, notwithstanding their reputation for prudery, propriety and sublimation, were possessed--like all human beings--of sexual appetites and the means of satisfying them in a wide variety of ways. If we ever doubted it, the historians and biographers who have lately devoted huge labors to the study of Victorian sexuality have relieved us of our innocence. Even figures known to have lived unexceptionably celibate lives have been arraigned on charges of harboring illicit sexual desires, for in the court of Freudian opinion everyone--the chaste no less than the debauched--is deemed to be guilty of some sort ...

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