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For more than 150 years, Lewis Carroll's Alice stories have captured the imaginations of readers, artists, filmmakers and designers. Holly Williams finds out why.
Dec 12, 2018 · Whilst Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, the first of the two about Wonderland, does not state Alice’s age – though we can make an informed estimate due to John Tenniel’s illustrations – the sequel, Through The Looking-Glass, gives Alice’s age as 7.
Mar 23, 2015 · This year, Alice in Wonderland is 150 years old, marked by a slew of shiny new editions, and a splendid book by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, The Story of Alice, exploring how a shy unmarried...
Jul 3, 2015 · Alice is turning 150 this year, yet we still love to read about (or watch) this curious little girl’s adventures in Wonderland again and again. There’s something about this book that has made it...
- Dimitra Fimi
- Striking A Blow Against The Adult World
- A Champion of Childhood
- ‘The Carroll Myth’
- Trolling Pieties
The story begins with bored, seven-year-old Alice sitting on a riverbank with her older sister. Alice doesn’t care for the book her sister is reading because it doesn’t have pictures. She falls asleep and follows a dapper but flustered rabbit down a rabbit hole and into Wonderland. In Wonderland she moves through a series of surreal vignettes in wh...
The West does have a long history of romanticising childhood. Wordsworth, in his 1807 Immortality Ode, writes: But even if the “romantic childhood” is a creation of bourgeois 19th century England — of the likes of Wordsworth and Carroll — it is a powerful and arguably noble notion. So let us follow it a little farther down the rabbit hole. While Al...
However, beyond Alice and Wonderland is Carroll himself. As Karoline Leach writes, in her remarkable book about “the Carroll myth”, at the centre of Alice lies, “the image of Carroll; a haunting presence in the story, a shifting dreamy impression of golden afternoons, fustiness, mystery, oars dripping in sun-rippling water.” Lewis Carroll is the pe...
Beyond the banter and the homage to childhood, we are drawn back to Alice because it contains a timeless contribution to the 1860s version of our own culture wars. Where we have political correctness, the 19th century Anglophone world had its own buzz-killing piety, at times foisted upon children — and adults — through verse. David Bates, a 19th ce...
- Jamie Q Roberts
May 23, 2020 · That is the question at the heart of a new exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, originally scheduled to open in June but now delayed by the coronavirus crisis.
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Sep 17, 2015 · The charm and value of Alice In Wonderland, throughout the rare early publications. Find out the reasons why they're so special.
