(Re)Constructions, Abstractions and Reductions: Readings of the Child-Author in The Adventures of Alice Laselles by Alexandrina Victoria (aged 10 ¾)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 2015, the British Royal Collection republished one of Queen Victoria’s childhood stories: Alice (c.1835) and renamed it as The Adventures of Alice Laselles (2015). Along with its new title, the text was given a new ending, new illustrations, and a number of in-text edits including the alteration of the lead character’s surname. These edits were crowned, no pun intended, by the cover matter which proclaimed the story as being written by both “Alexandrina Victoria aged 10 ¾” and “Queen Victoria”. In this article, I discuss the impact of these interventions upon both Alice and The Adventures of Alice Laselles, and show how they have come to construct, reconstruct, and reduce the body of the child author. I suggest that The Adventures of Alice Laselles, rather than telling the story of Alice herself, instead documents the impact of adult bodily interventions upon a child-authored text.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".