In October last year, there was a big conference in New York, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” story. Part of the conference was about the worldwide translations of the book.
Missed it? This part of the conference is now online available on video!
Go here to view the “Alice in a World of Wonderlands” conference videos: https://vimeo.com/album/3664885
Today would have been the 184’s birthday of Lewis Carroll (pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), the author of the Alice in Wonderland books.
Dodgson was born on 27 January 1832 in Daresbury, Cheshire. He died on 14 January 1898, not long before his 66th birthday.
If you want to know more about Lewis Carroll, read the biography on my site.
To celebrate 150 years of the publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the British Library in London is holding an exhibition about Lewis Carroll’s story, to explore how Alice has captured our imaginations for so many years.
The exhibition displays Lewis Carroll’s original manuscript with hand-drawn illustrations, alongside editions by Mervyn Peake, Ralph Steadman, Leonard Weisgard, Arthur Rackham, Salvador Dali and others. You can also see newly commissioned articles, a selection of manuscripts, reviews and literature relating to Alice in Wonderland, that show how the story has been re-imagined, re-interpreted and re-illustrated over the last 150 years.
On 24 November 2015, Mark J. Davies will give an illustrated talk called ‘Alice in Waterland’. It will take place near Oxford, United Kingdom.
The River Thames was fundamentally important in the creation of the famous tales of ‘Alice in Wonderland’. On a Victorian virtual voyage – from the riverside picnic at nearby Godstow where the tale was first told to the last of the many boat outings he made with the real Alice (Liddell) and her sisters – some of the real people, places, and events which underlie the fantasy will be revealed.
Today is November 4th. Did you know this is the day the story “Though the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there” took place?
Take this paragraph from the first chapter:
Happy Halloween everybody! I hope you all have a great and scary night…
Are you dressing up as an Alice in Wonderland character? Do send me a picture of your outfit! I might feature it on this blog or on my Pinterest Board!
Ina Fassbender Photography
At 7 November 2015 there will be a Lewis Carroll Study Day in the UK, organized by the Lewis Carroll Society and the Surrey History Centre.
The following talks are part of the programme: