Yes, our website is salvaged from savage pirates, and we have a lot of news to catch up on. Speaking of pirates… Peter Pan! (Sorry, that was a horrible transition…. [read full post]
Dame Judi Dench will play Alice Liddell Hargreaves!
The Blog of the LCSNA
Author: James Welsch
-Blogger for the Lewis Carroll Society of North America
-Editor at www.itwaslost.org (O it was lost for ever! and we found it not) an art & music weblog.
Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante and Lewis Carroll
Move over Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante is a spectacular gigantic painting by the Chinese artists Dai Dudu, Li Tiezi, and Zhang An (2006,… [read full post]
New Alice in Wonderland Poster from Prospero Art
Do you want an Alice in Wonderland poster? How big? How about 12″ x 18″? Sounds delightful. You can put it up in all manner of places (walls are one… [read full post]
G.A.H.! (Gardner’s Annotations Hyperlinked) – As large as life, and twice as natural
In Chapter VII of Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, the Unicorn looks at Alice “with an air of the deepest disgust” and asks, “What – is – this?”… [read full post]
Benedict Cumberbatch also known as Bandersnatch Cummerbund
A bandersnatch was in the news today, but it was widely assumed to be a typo. The actor who plays the titular role in BBC One’s Sherlock, Benedict Cumberbatch, had… [read full post]
G.A.H.! (Gardner’s Annotations Hyperlinked) – The Dormouse and Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Wombat
The Dormouse in Chapter VII of The Annotated Alice (pgs. 93-95) gets the following footnote from Martin Gardner: The British dormouse is a tree-living rodent that resembles a small squirrel… [read full post]
Alice in Wonderland Illustrations by Kodomos, a chic Spanish artist
Thanks to Adriana Peliano at the Sociedad Lewis Carroll do Brasil for alerting us to this Spanish artist who has a few eerie illustrations of Alice in Wonderland. The artist… [read full post]
YouTube Review of Alice in Wonderland by a young Singaporean girl
Do you remember, as a child, the first time you encountered Lewis Carroll’s book? We may have all had a few embarrassing thoughts, comparing it to more famous later adaptations. Or perhaps… [read full post]
G.A.H.! (Gardner’s Annotations Hyperlinked) – The Ugly Duchess
When we first meet the Duchess in Chapter VI of The Annotated Alice, Martin Gardner’s footnote (on page 82) is this: A glance at the portrait of the Ugly Duchess,… [read full post]
The Haunting of the Snarkasbord: a new Snark sequel by LCSNA members, published by Evertype
The Lewis Carroll Society of North America’s fantastic Spring 2012 meeting yesterday in Cambridge, Mass., was followed today by a gathering to view the Lewis Carroll collection of former president… [read full post]