![]() Claude Gillot: Satire in the Age of Reason.Sublime Ideas: Drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi.In and around Piranesi's Rome: Eighteenth-Century Views of Italy.Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy.Spirit and Invention: Drawings by Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo.Seeds of Knowledge: Early Modern Illustrated Herbals.Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality.A Focus on the Figure: Selections from the Karen B.Nora Thompson Dean: Lenape Teacher and Herbalist.Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961): Poetry Is Everything.Ferdinand Hodler: Drawings-Selections from the Musée Jenisch Vevey.Into the Woods: French Drawings and Photographs from the Karen B.Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist’s Studio.Tenniel’s color version for The Nursery “Alice”.Carroll’s final drawing in the manuscript.Alice in Wonderland magic lantern slides.Tenniel’s letter to the Dalziel Brothers.Southey’s “The Old Man’s Comforts and How He Gained Them”.Carroll’s letter to Alexander Macmillan.Carroll’s “’Tis the Voice of the Lobster”.Share your own Wonderland experience: #Alice150 150 Years of Wonderland In this online exhibition, we invite you to learn about Alice, Lewis Carroll, and the history of the original manuscript trace the development of the iconic illustrations page through a selection of manuscripts and letters watch early film adaptations, and listen to Alice-inspired music. Alice is a strong and intriguing heroine, and it is easy to identify with the young protagonist as she learns to navigate the world. The characters have been readily adapted and reinterpreted in countless ways. The book, which has never been out of print, has had an enormous impact on children’s literature and popular culture. Nevertheless, he went ahead, and a new edition appeared only a few months later to immediate and lasting success. Carroll estimated he would have to sell four thousand copies just to break even, and he feared that for an unknown debut novelist this was “too much to hope for.” He wrote Carroll immediately and objected so strongly that the author resolved to withdraw the entire edition-a radical decision, since Alice was essentially a self-published book. One early copy was seen by John Tenniel, who was shocked to find his pictures badly reproduced. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland appeared on 4 July 1865, exactly three years after the famous boating trip. The manuscript, titled “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground,” was finally completed and given to Alice in 1864.Īn early draft was shared with the fantasy children’s writer George Macdonald, whose young son Greville so loved the tale that he “wished there were 60,000 volumes of it.” Macdonald and other friends encouraged Carroll to publish, and he did so the next year, after revising the book to twice its original length and commissioning John Tenniel, one of the best illustrators of the day, to re-do the pictures. But, keenly attuned to the importance of pictures in a children’s book, he worked on the story’s illustrations for more than two years. At the end of the day, ten-year-old Alice asked for a written copy of the story.Ĭarroll drafted an outline the following day and finished the text within a few months. With no idea what would follow, he sent his heroine “straight down a rabbit-hole, to begin with, without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,” and the narrative of Wonderland emerged over the long afternoon. Storytelling frequently enlivened their outings, and Carroll readily obliged. Along the way, the girls asked for a story. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was first published in 1865, but the story originated three years earlier during a boating trip one perfect English summer afternoon.Ĭharles Lutwidge Dodgson (better known by his penname Lewis Carroll) and Robinson Duckworth, both young Oxford dons, were rowing the three Liddell sisters-Alice, Lorina, and Edith-up the River Thames to the hamlet of Godstow for a picnic. ![]()
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