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Call for papers: “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – A Companion”

23 February 2025

A follow-up volume to the recently published “Alice through the Looking-Glass: A Companion” is going to be published! It will be called “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – A Companion”. If you want to contribute to it, you can submit a paper.

Invited are fresh, cross-disciplinary perspectives on “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and its afterlives to explore literary, historical, and interdisciplinary approaches.

Abstracts of 200-300 words can be submitted using the submission form by 15 May 2025: https://forms.gle/XUsmPfBsXju2XpcR9
Completed pieces (around 3000 words) should be submitted in the first quarter/half of 2026.
Any question about the publication should be directed to [email protected], cc’ing the editors Franziska Kohlt ([email protected]) and Justine Houyaux ([email protected]). If you struggle with this deadline, you are encouraged to contact the editors as it may be possible to work around your schedule.

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Donation and exhibition: the Jon A. Lindseth Lewis Carroll Collection

8 February 2025

American scholar and collector Jon Lindseth donated his Lewis Carroll collection to Christ Church. They have started cataloguing and digitising the collection, but you can already see highlights of the collection in an exhibition.

Lindseth, who amongst others initiated the “Alice in a World of Wonderlands” project, owned one of the world’s largest privately held collections of letters, photographs, books, illustrations and other materials by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll). He recently donated the collection to Dodgson’s former place of residence: Christ Church, Oxford.

Included in the Jon A. Lindseth Lewis Carroll Collection are many early editions of Carroll’s works (including presentation copies and a first edition of the 1886 facsimile copy of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground inscribed to Alice’s mother), autographed letters, proofs of illustrations, photographs, and more.

In the exhibition “Pictures and Conversations: the Jon A. Lindseth Lewis Carroll Collection” you can already see some of the highlights of this collection, while Christ Church is still working on cataloguing and digitising the full collection. The exhibition runs until 17 April 2024. Enquiries about the collection can be sent to [email protected].

More information about the donation: https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/news/christ-church-receives-remarkable-lewis-carroll-donation
More information about the exhibition: https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/events/pictures-and-conversations-jon-lindseth-lewis-carroll-collection

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Book review: Alice Through the Looking-Glass: A Companion

19 September 2024

An interdisciplinary study of Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there” has just been published! This book consists of many essays by different authors, hoping to shine a light on Carroll’s oft-neglected sequel from their own perspective. I had the privilege to receive a review copy from the publisher, so I will give you my thoughts on this new publication.

After the Through the Looking Glass Sesquicentenary Conference that took place in 2021 in York (UK), a call for papers went out for a ‘companion’ publication to “Through the Looking-Glass”. Just as the conference had covered a broad range of aspects of the ‘Looking-Glass’ story, this companion’s objective would be to reflect the breadth of themes in the story, its cultural and adaptation history, and its ongoing relevance today.

It took several years, but the results of that call for papers have now finally been published in “Alice Through the Looking-Glass: A Companion”, edited by Franziska Kohlt and Justine Houyaux. The book consists of an impressive 516 pages and contains no less than 38 essays by 42 authors!

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Book review: “Alice Through The Smartphone – How Safe Is The Internet Wonderland?”

13 June 2024

Author Russell Jeanes was so kind as to send me a digital copy of his new tale “Alice Through The Smartphone”. I’ve written a review for anyone who may be interested in this book, which is mainly aimed at primary school teachers and parents who want to teach their smartphone-craving children how to use them responsible.

Cover of Alice Throug The Smartphone

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Alice’s Day 2024

6 June 2024

This year’s Alice’s Day will be held on the 6th of July in Oxford – and I have been invited to give one of the talks for the Lewis Carroll Society!

Each year around the 4th of July (the day the Wonderland story arose), Alice’s Day is held in Oxford, UK. The whole city celebrates all things Alice in Wonderland, with many activities for both children and adults. On Saturday 6 July 2024 there will be another celebration, and this year’s theme is ‘Fabulous Monsters and Curious Creatures’. Dressing up is highly encouraged!

Activities include playing croquet, making a giant Jabberwock sculpture, Wonderland facepainting, performances, exhibitions, walks, and much more.

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Exhibition and sale: prints from the original wood blocks

13 May 2024

In the UK there is currently an exhibition of Alice in Wonderland illustrations printed directly from the original wood blocks. They are also for sale.

To be able to print John Tenniel’s illustrations, his illustrations were engraved in wood blocks. To avoid wear of these precious wood blocks, they were not used for the actual printing, but as masters from which electrotype copies would be made. (You can read more about this process on my website). The use of electrotypes does result in a slight loss of definition.

In 1981 the original wood engraved blocks were discovered in deed boxes belonging to Macmillan, the original publishers. Jonathan Stephenson at the Rocket Press subsequently printed 250 sets from these blocks – the first and last time that they were used for actual printing.

These prints, for both Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there, are now exhibited in Adam’s Gallery. You can buy individual prints, as well as complete sets of all engravings in their original boxes.

woodblock prints exhibition

Date: 4th April to 26th May 2024
Location: Adam’s Gallery, Reigate, UK
More information: https://www.adamsgallery.co.uk/alice-in-wonderland

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