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  • Alice in a World of Wonderlands

    Bobby Fischer meets Alice in the work of Norberto Conti

    This is an exhibition of many translations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This is an outgrowth of the compiling of the book by the same name. Well over one hundred translators and scholars contributed to the 3 volume compendium of foreign language Alice knowledge.  

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  • Alice at Columbia

    Chang Octagon Gallery, Rare Book and Manuscript Library Butler Library, 6th Floor, East, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States

    This exhibit is about Alice Hargreaves being awarded an honorary Ph.D. in 1932, on the occasion of the centenary of Lewis Carroll's birth. The degree was awarded based on the fact that Alice as a child implored Carroll to write down the tale he had begun on a fateful rowing trip. There was much fanfare... [read full post]

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  • The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland

    Pee Wee Players Alice in Wonderland

    In his latest book, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Magdalen College, University of Oxford, illuminates the friendship between Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories. Douglas-Fairhurst examines how this relationship stirred Carroll’s imagination and influenced the creation of Wonderland. A book signing follows the talk. The exhibition Alice: 150... [read full post]

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  • Alice: 150 Years of Wonderland

    Pee Wee Players Alice in Wonderland

    This exhibition will bring to light the curious history of Wonderland, presenting an engaging account of the genesis, publication, and enduring appeal of Lewis Carroll's classic tale, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. For the first time in three decades, the original manuscript will travel from the British Library in London to New York, where it will be... [read full post]

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  • LCSNA Spring 2015 Meeting

    Harry Ransom Center University of Texas, Austin, TX

    The fabled Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, home to three legendary Carroll collections (Warren Weaver, Helmut Gernsheim, Byron W. and Susan R. Sewell), hosted our meeting on April 18. We began with a tour of their fabulous sesquicentennial exhibit, led by Dr. Danielle Sigler, its curator. After lunch, Dr. Francine Abeles, Professor Emerita... [read full post]

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  • LCSNA Fall 2014 Meeting

    Toronto , Canada

    Toronto and environs, October 3–5. On Friday, Dayna Nuhn spoke to us at the Art Gallery of Ontario about The Lady with the Lilacs, the Arthur Hughes painting once owned by CLD. Saturday found us Toronto Public Library, home of the Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books and the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation & Fantasy, both of which we toured. We heard... [read full post]

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  • LCSNA Spring 2014 Meeting

    New York Institute of Technology 16 West 61st Street, 11th floor, New York, NY, United States

    Great times were in store for us at the Spring meeting on Saturday, April 26th, held at the New York Institute of Technology’s Manhattan campus. In honor of our Fortieth Anniversary, founding members Morton Cohen, Edward Guiliano, Michael Patrick Hearn, David Schaefer, and Justin Schiller presented a panel on the founding and early days of our Society, “There’s Glory for You.” Presentations included Craig... [read full post]

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  • LCSNA Fall 2013 Meeting

    Los Angeles

    The fall 2013 meeting was held in Los Angeles on the weekend of November 1-3, at USC’s Doheny Library and environs. Linda and George Cassady put together a wonderful program around the theme of “Lewis Carroll Outsiders.” Saturday presentations included a discussion with the editors of The Alice Project, an online venture wherein a large number... [read full post]

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  • LCSNA Spring 2013 Meeting

    Stephanie Lovett and Charlie and Janice Lovett were our hosts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for a very full, multiple-venue three days (April 19-21). The events included a fully-staged performance of Dan Singer‘s new play, A Perfect Likeness, about an imagined meeting between Dodgson and Dickens; a talk by Charlie on the influence of Rev. Charles Dodgson on his son’s religious thinking; a... [read full post]

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  • Autumn in New York (Fall 2012 Meeting)

    Fales Library New York University, New York, NY

    On Saturday, September 29 at the Fales Library in New York University (home of the fabled Berol collection), Washington Square campus, in New York City we were treated to talks by Adam Gopnik on Sylvie and Bruno Concluded; Robin Wilson, who wrote Lewis Carroll in Numberland; Ella Parry-Davies on Russian illustrators; Andrew Sawyer on his typgraphic Alice; David Schaefer on his discovery of a 1928 Looking-Glass film reel; and Morton Cohen was interviewed by Edward Guiliano thirty years... [read full post]

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