I read Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass many years ago from a facsimile edition of the first ones ever published with the original artwork. I remember liking the Disney version as a kid. So it was with great sadness I learned of his probably paedophiliac tendency towards the daughters of his friend who inspired the story. I have always wondered about people who love the books and have to do a quick check to make sure the reasons they enjoy the story and its history and why they admire Lewis Carroll.
Abuse of children has been and still is, with us across the world. It is different from a man like Ernest Christopher Dowson who seem to have genuinely fallen n love with a 12 year old, written her poetry and gone back other as a woman to ask her to marry him. In the craziness that is our hormones I can understand that.
But only loving children is more than an illness. It is a brutality and a sinister perversion. But, as with all art, you cannot separate the life from the art.