Eleanor Morton
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829 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4d ago
Eleanor Morton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Let's say that suppression in itself.
When I've been abroad, they always think I'm Irish before they think I'm Scottish, which they also get confused by because I sound English.
I
blame
don't you?
think I'm more Irish than you genetically.
So let's say I'm allowed to... Yes, you are, definitely.
You're the
I mean, I'm absolutely not.
It is weird when you see someone who is poverty bad, child labour bad, and then Irish racism good.
And it's like, he's got this uncomfortable Victorian thing where he thinks poverty is bad, but he also kind of thinks it might be your fault if you're poor, I think, a little bit.
It's from 1862.
I think I could be wrong, but certainly, if not the year after, then very close after Alice in Wonderland is published.
And when I read Alice in Wonderland and about how it was sort of an anti-moralistic book, I now realise this is exactly the kind of book that Alice in Wonderland is trying not to be.
This is what
Lewis Carroll hated and was like, children are sick of this nonsense, this proselytising.
They do, they do.
But
a lesson in it.
That's exactly it.
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