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TropesForever
Since: Sep, 2016
25th Aug, 2018 12:24:54 AM
The trope is Creator Backlash. Having said that, you should make sure your grammar is correct. If English isn't your first language you can ask for help in this forum thread.
Hi TV Tropes.
I wanna contribute this entry:
" At around February 2014, a letter from Lewis Carroll, the very writer of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass, was unearthed, and the letter was sent to Mrs. Symonds, and it was about how much Carroll hated writing the two Alice books that because he is very famous for it. He stated that he is not willing to accept autographs from other people and he felt like that he was treated like a "lion and that he sometimes wished that he never wrote his books at all. This is not surprising if you know anything about Lewis Carroll, this is because he had a very private life, so private in fact that not everybody knows that his real name is Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, but he changed it to Lewis Carroll.
The letter looks like this:
"I don't think I explained successfully my reasons for disliking letters of mine being put into autograph-collections. All that sort of publicity leads to strangers hearing of my real name in connection with the books, and to my being pointed out to, and started at by, strangers, and treated as a 'lion.' And I hate all that so intensely that sometimes I almost wish I had never written any books at all." "
Here are some sources
https://io9.gizmodo.com/lewis-carroll-hated-fame-so-much-he-sometimes-regrette-1564824371 https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/460535/Alice-in-Wonderland-s-Lewis-Carroll-regretted-writing-the-books-that-made-him-a-legend https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/10644072/Lewis-Carroll-hated-Alice-in-Wonderland-fame.html
Has this already been added? If not what trope does this go into? Thanks.
Edited by PMHLegoCity60134