All Posts Filed in ‘Events’

Lewis Carroll started the story during a boat trip with Alice and her sisters on the 4th of July, 1862. Later he expanded the tale for publication and the first edition of the book was printed on 4 July 1865, exactly 3 years after the boat trip. But this first issue was recalled because of unsatisfactory printing. The official publishing date is therefore 18 November 1865.

The original first edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

This is the second symposium of the Society, which was revived in January 2017, after having being dormant for many years. The symposium will be in Dutch.

Read full post >

The lecture is called “The Natural History of ALICE: Bats, Cats and Dormice” – or “the ABCD of Wonderland”. 🙂

Rosemary Etheridge of the Harrow Natural History Society and Jane Skelly of the Lewis Carroll Society discuss the natural and not so natural history to be found in the Alice books. From dormice nesting in teapots to the evolution of the Bread-and-butter fly.

Date: 17 November 2017
Time: 7.00 pm
Location: The Art Workers’ Guild, London (UK)
Admission: free

The date is never actually mentioned in the story, but we can derive from the context that the 4th of November is the day Alice visited Looking Glass land.

Read full post >

Lewis Carroll’s worlds of the imagination are places of unexpectedly violent encounters: from the despotic Queen of Hearts terrorising Wonderland with threats of wholesale decapitation to those battling duos beyond the Looking-Glass, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Lion and the Unicorn and the Red and White Knights. This topic will be considered in the lecture.

Read full post >

The story arose at 4 July 1862, and was continued on further trips with the children. The tales evolved into the manuscript ‘Alice’s Adventures Under Ground’.

Later, Dodgson (under his pen name ‘Lewis Carroll’) decided to publish the story. On 4 July 1865, the first edition of ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ was printed – which was 3 years later, now exactly 152 years ago!