evidence: There is a claim that Lewis Carroll was on drugs of some sort when he wrote Alice in Wonderland (or that the book is about drug use). Regardless of the truth (or lack thereof) of these claims, what are the origins of these claims? Can they be traced back to any specific individual(s) or time period? - 1Just googling books in tight date ranges, it does not seem that this is an oft-repeated claim. The earliest I can find is 1993 (victorianweb.org/authors/carroll/aiwl5.html). Do you have evidence that this indeed is an "oft repeated claim"? Ironically the denials that Carroll used drugs exclude his use of laudanum. Commented Jun 22, 2018 at 14:26 - 2 - 1As further evidence that this is not an "oft repeated claim", there is not a single whiff of drugs under any of the controversy sections (which indeed exists) of either en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll nor en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland. While everyone thinks Alice is "trippy", I have never heard, let alone read, that Carroll was on drugs. Contrasted with say Coleridge. Commented Jun 22, 2018 at 18:19 - 4This claim was already present in the late 1960's, and is in effect implicit in the lyrics of Grace Slick's 1965-6 White Rabbit where Alice's adventures are figuratively equated with a drug trip. Or at least, so my dorm mates insisted. Commented Jun 22, 2018 at 21:00 - 3Possible duplicate of Is Alice in Wonderland about drugs?– Rand al'Thor ♦Commented Jun 23, 2018 at 23:43 1 Answer