Links

Lewis Carroll societies

• Visit the website of the Lewis Carroll Society in the UK and become a member. They have an online catalogue for their magazine ‘The Carrollian’.
• There also is the Lewis Carroll Society of North America (LCSNA) for Carroll enthusiasts in the USA. Their ‘Knight Letter’ magazines with lots of interesting articles are available online!
• The Lewis Carroll Society of Japan (English page)
• The Lewis Carroll Society of Brazil
• Het Lewis Carroll Genootschap (the Dutch Lewis Carroll Society). Their site includes amongst others a bibliography of Dutch editions of Lewis Carroll’s books.
• The Lewis Carroll Society d’Italia
• The French Lewis Carroll Society

Digital works and resources

• Christ Church Library is digitising many of their Carroll/Alice related holdings. View the online catalogue, and specifically the section about the creation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland!
• The Bodleian Library has digitised Lewis Carroll’s personal copy of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (also known as the ‘Michelson Alice’, because it was donated to Christ Church by Ellen A. Michelson), which is a special copy of the 1865 suppressed first edition, as it contains ten of Tenniel’s original pencil sketches bound into the volume. The book also includes Carroll’s handwritten notes for what would later become the ‘Nursery Alice’ edition.
• On this site you can find the e-text of ‘the Nursery Alice’, inclusing the Tenniel illustrations that were colored later.
• Project Gutenberg has put Stuart Collingwood’s “Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll” on-line for everyone to download and read.
• The complete contents of “The Lewis Carroll picture book” can be found online. It is a “Selection from the Unpublished Writings and Drawings of Lewis Carroll, Together with Reprints from Scarce and Unacknowledged Work” and contains several sections about the ‘Alice’ stories.
• A project that attempts to list all first editions of Lewis Carroll’s books.
• These websites make an attempt to show all the main illustrators of the Alice books (mainly British editions) from 1899 to 2009 and from 1929 to 2009.
• When you own a copy of an ‘Alice’ book published by Henry Altemus, and want to know more about it, you can look up your edition at this site.
• Lewis Carroll Resources is a collection of webpages, databases and tools designed to help Carroll scholars, collectors, writers and enthusiasts.
• The Victorian Web contains a lot of information about the Victorian age, like the political context. Very interesting, and essential for a good understanding of the cultural background of the Alice stories! Also take a look at the part that is specifically about Lewis Carroll.
• Play script from 1881 that is now free of copyright and can be downloaded or read online. It also includes the sheet music.

Oxford locations

1. When visiting Oxford, you can book a guided walk to places with relevance to the Alice in Wonderland story. If you visit Oxford with children, consider a guided walking tour or bicycle tour (both including a visit to Christ Church) by the Mad Hatter!
2. The website of the real ‘Old Sheep Shop‘ in Oxford, where Alice Liddell used to buy candy.
3. At this site you can look up pictures of the graves of both Charles Dodgson and Alice Liddell.

Shopping and collecting

• If you’re looking for rare Alice in Wonderland editions, AbeBooks’ search tool is a great place to start. Marchpane also has a nice collection.
• The Alice Through the Looking-Glass boutique in London specializes in Alice iconography, including first edition books, rare illustrated editions, limited edition art prints, collectors items, ceramics, shirts, gifts, and more. They also have a small museum with some rare items that are not for sale.
• Visit the Alice in Wonderland Collectors Network on Facebook.

Miscellaneous

• Contrariwise – a group that is striving to bring about a more rational and evidence-based view of Lewis Carroll, his life and his work, away from the mythologies.
• A listing of fake photographs of Lewis Carroll with Alice Liddell, that unfortunately circulate on the web.
• A site with a lot of information about Kathryn Beaumont, the girl who voiced Alice in the Disney movie.

‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’
‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat.
‘I don’t much care where–‘ said Alice.
‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat.
‘–so long as I get SOMEWHERE,’ Alice added as an explanation.
‘Oh, you’re sure to do that,’ said the Cat.