I'm not sure where I saw it, but there was supposedly a theory that Carroll was the Ripper. At any rate, I wasn't endorsing it--merely showing how one can read anything they want into children's books.
Professor Dodgson must have been a strange one. A math freak egghead who liked to take photos of naked young girls (apparently without ever abusing or harming them in any way) who was simultaneously a minor order clergyman in the Anglican Church. He may have even been doctrinally orthodox (unlike L. Frank Baum, the [Republican] anti-chrstian new-ager proto-feminist).
Nineteenth Century American politics were a hoot!
I am a "RIPPEROLOGIST" and in the more than 1/2 a century of of my interest/study of this topic, I have NEVER, NOT ONCE, NOT FROM BRIT NOR AMERICAN, OR EVEN EUROPEAN SOURCES seen nor heard of this abjectly STUPID suggestion!
First of all, Charles Dodgson was a somewhat eccentric academic who did NOT venture into the slums of London.
Secondly he was in his very late 50s-60s when the Ripper murders took place.
Thirdly, he has less than NO training nor education is surgery, anatomy, nor was he in the Military, and he wasn't ever a butcher!
Lastly, he had a slight, non-athletic body, was deaf in one ear, suffered a severe injury to one of his knees in middle age, and walked with some difficulty. Ergo, overpowering and slicing up a hefty, younger female, and then rapidly fleeing the scene of the crime is just beyond absurd!
One can now read a phone book, evidently, and find "racism", "misogyny","WHITE NATIONALISM", and/or whatever else micro and macro "triggers" idiotic little snowflakes! The there was some moronic prof, who in the 1950s saw homo-eroticism and a cross racial love affair in HUCKLEBERRY FINN.
Dodgson was probably a case of arrested development and asexual. He took a LOT of pictures of children, but also of his famous Pre-Raphaelite artist and literary friends.
What the bleeding heel does ANY of this have to do with 19th century American politics?