LEWIS CARROLL

Curiouser and curiouser... What was there about Alice Liddell that attracted not one, but two of the enduring artists of her time to immortalize her? The nineteenth century photographer Julia Margaret Cameron has left us a picture of a striking young brunette, then a teen. But by then she had already been photographed, and made immortal, by the ...

Alice was published in 1865, three years after the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat, on 4 July 1862, up the River Thames with the three young daughters of Henry Liddell, (the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and Dean of Christ Church) : Lorina Charlotte Liddell (aged 13, born 1849) (""Prim...

THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS,  The sequel to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” finds Alice back in Wonderland and a pawn in a surreal chess game. This weird and wonderful book includes the poems “Jabberwocky” and “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” a talking pudding, and that immortal line “Jam yesterday, jam tomorrow, but never jam today.” Lewis Carr...

Et si Alice entrait dans la maison du Miroir, cette fois-ci ? A peine en a-t-elle l'idée que la glace se brouille et que la jeune fille plonge dedans. Une nouvelle galerie de personnages inattendus défile alors, comme de lointains cousins du pays des merveilles : Reine Rouge et Reine Blanche, Gros Coco, Blanc Bonnet et Bonnet Blanc...