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Category Archives: Lewis Carroll
Alice in Oxford
The British Library and SEMLAC present a new site on the story of the creation of Alice and her adventures Continue reading
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Lewis Carroll — Pornographer
An Italian history of pornographic photography publishes parts of a scrapbook supposedly by the author of the Alice books. Continue reading
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Carroll s emotional and social life
A new section on the ‘Looking for Lewis Carroll’ website Continue reading
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A new article in the Reading Shelf
How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear! by Bertha Coolidge Continue reading
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Lewis Carroll and Little Girls (again!)
It had to happen. After years of attacks to his biography of Lewis Carroll, Morton N. Cohen has replied in the pages of the Times Literary Supplement Continue reading
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Why is Humpty Dumpty depicted as an egg?
The answer from the Groton Public Library… Continue reading
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Undoing Disney
Theater in the Open debuts Maudslay season with a performance of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Continue reading
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New Alice Book by Carroll, by R.J. Carter
Telos is publishing a new Alice novel which picks up nine months after where Through the Looking Glass left Continue reading
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Carroll's Headaches
Migraine aura symptoms gave rise to “Adventures in Wonderland” Migraine aura may have been the inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s descriptions of ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,’ physicians suggest in a letter published in the April 17th issue of The Lancet. Coining … Continue reading
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Dr. Seuss and the British
The lord of misrule By Nicola Shulman The British response to Dr Seuss has not, so far, been suitable reading for Ms Dimond-Cates. It may be that we have an embarrassment of excellent children’s writers of our own, whom we … Continue reading
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