Category Archives: Lewis Carroll

Alice in Russia

Posted on March 13, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

The Moscow Times has an interesting story of the coming of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland to Russia: it seems the book had a very negative reception from the time of the first 1879 translation until 1967, when Soviet bureaucrats … Continue reading →

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The 1903 Alice Movie

Posted on March 5, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

The whole of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland (well, almost) in just 9 spectacular minutes, the original probably ran a bit longer as some scenes seem to be incomplete. On YouTube, in very low quality, but then I had never … Continue reading →

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Alice Meets the Cheshire Cat

Posted on October 12, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

After writing yesterday’s post I remembered I had seen an animator break down of the Cheshire cat scene in Disney’s Alice; at last I have found it again, it was posted by Thad Komorowski of Animation ID on Dailymotion: Alice … Continue reading →

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Cheshire Cat Art

Posted on October 11, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

If, like me, you think the Cheshire Cat scene in the Disney Alice in Wonderland is one of the best moments in the movie, don’t miss the We’re All Mad Here (more) exhibition at Gallery Nineteen Eighty Eight. You will … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear and Alice

Posted on August 2, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

One of the most common statements to be found in the frquent comparisons between Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll is that there is no proof that they knew each other’s work; for example John Lehman, in Edward Lear and His … Continue reading →

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Dreaming Alice

Posted on June 5, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

Starting on 6 June 2005 BBC Radio 4 will be broadcasting a series of programmes in which contemporary writers give a twist to Alice in Wonderland. You will be able to listen to them on the web for a week … Continue reading →

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Let Universe be Books

Posted on May 24, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

I have just received Justin G. Schiller Ltd.’s Spring Miscellany catalogue (no. 53) and among the many interesting items listed is an “original ink Manuscript lesson for teaching Logic, conceived in diagram format and dated by Dodgson in the upper … Continue reading →

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Lear Alphabet Manuscript and Wasp in a Wig to be Auctioned

Posted on April 4, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

More Edward Lear on sale at Christie’s auction of the Norman and Cynthia Armour Collection of Fine Children’s Books. The galley proofs for Carroll’s “Wasp in a Wig” episode are also on sale. Continue reading →

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Lewis Carroll at the Family Records Centre

Posted on February 22, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

An exhibition of several documents relating to his life. Continue reading →

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Carroll and Money

Posted on February 18, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

A new book reveals that Carroll was not very careful with his spending Continue reading →

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