Loretta Lux: Real or Imaginary

Figure 16: Reverend Thomas Childe Barker and his daughter, May conflict with many of the Victorian assumptions of what middle-class childhood should be - intelligent, perceptive and physically, socially and sexually self-aware. Dodgson’s unorthodox vision of childhood can also be seen in other photographs. In Dodgson’s portraits of Reverend Thomas Childe Barker and his daughter, May (figure 16), the traditional Victorian