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Lewis Carroll’s Girls: Growing Up Female in Victorian England
August 11, 2024 , 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT
Join this Zoom Webinar on August 11.
10:30 AM Pacific/ 1:30 PM Eastern/ 6:30 PM UK
Join Karen Bourrier, Professor of English at the University of Calgary, as she discusses her research and upcoming book on the lives of Lewis Carroll’s child friends. Hosted by LCSNA Board Member Diane Waggoner, Curator of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art.
Our upcoming talk, Lewis Carroll’s Girls, comes out of a book project Karen Bourrier is currently working on, a collective biography of the girls that Charles Dodgson befriended. The book focuses on the child-friends who grew up in Oxford; many of Dodgson’s child-friends were the daughters of liberal, reforming academics. They were largely born in the 1850s and 1860s, at a time of expanding educational and career possibilities for women. The book project follows the thread of their lives, as they became the first women students at college, suffragists, artists, and educators. This past spring, Bourrier worked on this book as a fellow at the Life Writing Centre at Trinity College, Wolfson.
Karen Bourrier is a professor of English at the University of Calgary, where she specializes in Victorian literature and culture and women’s writing. Her most recent book is Victorian Bestseller: The Life of Dinah Craik (U Michigan, 2019).
