The books > Translating Alice

[Melissa L]

Hi!
I'm doing a dissertation on Bilingual editions of Alice in Wonderland and wanted to ask if anyone knew why Lewis Carroll asked Henri Bué to translated his work into French. I read in an article that he was the one who initiated the first three translations in German, Italian and French but I cannot find why.
Thanks in advance!

[Beautiful Soup]

Michael Everson is easily the best informed person on Alice translations who posts here - His company, Evertype, publishes the book in numerous languages

If I were you, I'd be tempted to contact him via his twitter or facebook, and see if he has any words of wisdom to share

Twitter https://twitter.com/evertype

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/evertype

[Lenny]

Perhaps the book ''Alice in many tongues" by Warren Weaver has some information about this?