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Charles Edward Caryl was born on December 30, 1841 in New York, New York City, United States. His father, Nathan Taylor Carryl, was a well-to-do businessman.
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Charles Edward Caryl was born on December 30, 1841 in New York, New York City, United States. His father, Nathan Taylor Carryl, was a well-to-do businessman.
Charles's father was wealthy enough to send his child to private schools. However, by sixteen, Taylor had begun his primary career as a businessman.
Carryl worked for railroad companies until 1872, when he became a stockbroker - this was to be his profession until 1908. While working as an officer of the railroad companies, however, he began the other important work of his lifeю
Carryl raised his children through storytelling. The "nonsense fantasy world." as Street called Carryl's milieu, was developed for his children's amusement, but Carryl began in 1884 to amuse other children as well, by publishing the stories in a journal, St. Nicholas. Those stories were serialized and then published as Davy and the Goblin (1885).
In his first book, Carryl relates the story of a little boy's "believing voyage" - a series of adventures on which he is led by a goblin. Carryl's work is openly reminiscent of Carroll's, and even begins with his hero, Davy, reading Alice in Wonderland on a snowy Christmas eve. As Street explained, "It is undeniable that his creations were influenced by the nonsense stories of Lewis Carroll, yet Carryl was not merely an imitator.
Davy and the Goblin and The Admirals Caravan (1892) employ a technique of blending nonsense and reality that in modem terms might be considered cinematic." By following this world's logic in a bizarre fantasy land, moreover, the silliness of both were emphasized. Moreover, Carryl always brought his sources vividly to the reader's attention; in some parts of Davy's journey, the boy met old literary favorites such as Sinbad the Sailor, Jack (from Jack and the Beanstalk), Robin Hood and Robinson Crusoe. In this way, Carryl was able to encourage his younger readers to love reading, and to find those books Davy seemed to know so well.
Carry's second novel, The Admiral 's Caravan, was put before the public much as Davy was: it first ran as a serial in St. Nicholas, and was then published in book form in 1892. The stories in it were not composed in the same way as Davy and the Goblin, however: by the time Carryl wrote his second book, his stories were no longer spun for his children's pleasure, but rather because it pleased Carryl. The Admiral's Caravan chronicles the adventures of a little girl named Dorothy, who follows some living statutes on a journey into a nonsensical world. In The Admiral's Caravan, nonsense played an even larger role than it did in Davy and the Goblin, for Carryl at times allowed the narrative to become carried away with verbal tomfoolery, puns and quibbles. The book was less successful than Davy, perhaps because of this deeper appreciation for sophisticated language games.
Carry's next books. Stories of the Sea (1893), The River Syndicate and Other Stories (1899), and Charades by an Idle Man (1911), each followed in the path of the first two books: they blended nonsense with logic in order to produce the weirdest and most amusing adventures.
Carryl continued to write such stories until his death in 1920, and some of the final nonsense lyrics were only collected and published in 1963. That last collection, A Capital Ship; or The Walloping Window - blind (1963), was received warmly, suggesting that Carryl's nutty writing continues to allure children.
Charles Carryl is best known for his unashamedly silly children's books, which relate the kinds of fantastical adventures found in the work of Lewis Carroll. Carryl wrote his stories for his own children (one of whom would grow to be a writer), but when he published his stories they delighted children throughout the States.
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Carryl married Mary Wetmore in 1869 and together they raised two children, Guy and Constance.
