Recently I got myself a real functioning doorknob shaped like the Doorknob in Disney’s cartoon movie!
The item is handmade by an artist called Propsculptor and is available through his Etsy store. It is made of polyurethane resin and painted gold/brass.
Exactly 152 years ago today, the book “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” was published.
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
On January 12th, the Dutch Lewis Carroll Society (het Lewis Carroll Genootschap) will organize a free symposium in The Hague.
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.
After the Lewis Carroll Society’s Annual Meeting, which takes place in London, there will be a lecture that is open to all.
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
Yesterday, a presentation copy of the first “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground” facsimile was auctioned and sold at Sotheby’s. So if you wanted it, you’re too late, but I’m reproducing it here so you know what it looks like and what prices these kind of copies can go for nowadays.
This book is a presentation copy for the facsimile of “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground”, the manuscript that preceded “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. The copy is inscribed by Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) himself and addressed to the Duchess of Albany.
Did you know today is the day “Through the Looking Glass and what Alice found there” took place?
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.
Today is the 6th of October, or 10/6, just like the card on the Hatter’s hat. Have a great Mad Hatter day, everyone!
