On 26 and 27 May there will be a series of talks about the ‘Alice’ books, Lewis Carroll, and Alice Liddell in Lyndhurst, UK.
The talks are organized by the New Forest Heritage Trust. Both evenings consist of two short talks with a glass of wine in between the two.
Can you believe I have been maintaining this website for 25 years?? To celebrate this anniversary, I am giving away a free copy of my book “Alice’s Adventures under Water“!
It’s almost time again for the annual “Alice’s Day”, celebrated each year in Oxford, UK, around the 4th of July (the day the story arose)!
This year, Alice’s Day will be held on July 2nd. Once more, there is an extensive programme. It includes fun activities, like a Mad Tea Party, games, workshops, a cupcake decorating competition, and more. There are also exhibitions, walks, and talks, some of which are organized by the Lewis Carroll Society.
You are invited to dress for the occasion, so pick your favorite Wonderland or Looking-Glass world character!
Date: 2 July 2022
Location: Oxford, UK
More information & full programme: https://www.storymuseum.org.uk/about-us/alices-day-1
Alice Liddell, the girl that the ‘Alice’ stories are about, was born on May 4 1852. Happy birthday, Alice!
It’s not a coincident that “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” takes place on May 4th as well. You can discover this if you read the story closely, as several clues are given in the text!
Coming May, professor Gillian Beer will give an online lecture and seminar about dialogue in Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice’ books.
Gillian Beer is retired Professor of English at the University of Cambridge, and former president of Clare Hall. She published several books, among which “Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll”.
Date: Saturday 28 May 2022
Time: 18.00 (British Summer Time) / 19.00 Central European Summer Time
Location: online
Price: £28 full price / £23 students and CAMcard holders
More information: https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/book-online-study-sessions/alice-dialogue
On this day, Lewis Carroll was born. Today would have been his 190th birthday!
Lewis Carroll, whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was born on 27 January 1832 in Daresbury, Cheshire. He was his parent’s third child. Carroll died just before his 66th birthday.
The University of Oxford again organises a Summer School course about Lewis Carroll and his works. This year’s course is called “Lewis Carroll’s Oxford and the Surprising Histories of Alice’s Wonderland”
This one-week course is part of The Oxford Experience, a residential summer programme aimed at non-specialists.
The course will explore Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice’ books, their origins in Oxford, its architecture, personalities, hidden histories and controversies. It will also cast a look beyond Oxford, to reimaginations in art and popular culture, science and politics, and take a look at the question of why Alice is still so fascinating to us.