ABSTRACT
Andrew Ross, in No Respect: Intellectuals & Popular Culture (1989), has argued that research is always autobiographical and part of a larger project of self-criticism. 1 I suspect that he is correct. I would like to conclude with an observation that is perhaps more autobiographical than scholarly, but I think it also helps confirms the ability of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) to continue as an effective children's text for contemporary readers.
