2020 Fall Meeting

This session will explore the engraver’s responsibility when cutting Tenniel’s finished drawings on the wood. Demakos will delve into the different types of engraving, the process of physically cutting the… [read full post]

Lewis Carroll’s first and last published works were both poems. Lost or under-appreciated in the universe of his Alice books, the beauty of his photographs, his games, puzzles and mathematics… [read full post]

Imholtz will discuss the fascinating history of the Appleton Alice, how it almost came not to be, how it did come to be, what it is, its variations, its marketing,… [read full post]

Bendis will discuss two separate research projects. The first is a web app that enables one to write open poetry and stories using the words and word frequencies contained in… [read full post]

A report on a demonstration project to visualize dynamically by time and geography the publication history of the two Alice books over the past 155 years. Employing the checklists entries… [read full post]

Koziura will discuss the process to create and the working demonstration version of a digital exhibit focused on adaptations of Alice, including timelines of films, music recordings, and games. Koziura… [read full post]

Arnold Hirshon. “Beyond Tenniel: Trailblazing Illustrators of Alice.” Despite common assumptions, the “long shadow of Tenniel” did not dictate the work of later illustrators, nor was Tenniel always the best… [read full post]

On revising his book “The Tenniel Illustrations to the ‘Alice’ Books (1985, 2019),” including the updated original twelve chapters of the 1985 edition and six new chapters on book and… [read full post]

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