Peter and Martin Wesley-Smith’s show Boojum! Nonsense, Truth and Lewis Carroll is opening in Chicago this month. It runs from 18 November to 19 December, with previews on 16 & 17 November, at the Storefront Theatre, presented by Caffeine Theatre and Chicago Opera Vanguard. The buzz is it will be a very vibrant, interesting version […]
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“I cannot remember any other motive…”: the chronology of creating Wonderland
It’ll be November soon, the month in which Alice’s Adventures Underground was begun and (two looong years later) finally delivered to its intended recipient, Alice Liddell. It’s one of the most myth-drenched areas of Lewis Carroll’s life. So it does no harm to use the upcoming anniversary to take another look. (By the way, for […]
The Virtual Victorian
Here’s an extract from the Virtual Victorian blog (unpromisingly titled “The Shy and Stammering Man”): But, despite loving to visit art galleries and the theatre, the stuttering, unmarried clergyman was never truly comfortable in the adult ‘society’ world, preferring to indulge in the uncomplicated friendship of children. Such sincere and intense ‘relationships’ have since led […]
First post at new home
Here we are at our shiny new home, with a shiny new custom-made theme. More later about why we had to move…
wiki-weird II
We’ve been fatally distracted from this blog by our Other Lives, but someone (thank you JedO) just told us about a little something on Wiki we had to pass on. Of course Lewis Carroll’s Wikipedia page is prone to outbursts of Tourette’s at the best of times, with whole sections being replaced with pithy […]
Best Search term to hit us ever II
The last of these we picked out was “Alice in Wonderland garden gnomes”, which really just opens up a vista in the mind’s eye doesn’t it. ( They never told us if they found what they were looking for, but I know they have their gnomes nestled safe in the garden by the goldfish pond, […]
Your comments on the Wasp
A lot of responses to the Wasp post, so we thought we’d add a small follow-up looking at some of the points raised. Jack Bradshaw said : I do not believe it has never been scrutinized. I think I read somewhere the type had been examined and it was genuine, can anyone confirm that? The […]
Wiki-weird
The Lewis Carroll Wiki page is an almost permanent zone of weird, of course, but I’m not talking about the usual kinds of “he was a pervert who should have had his balls fried”, or “he lived next door to my Nan and used to walk her dog”, kind of stuff ; I’m referring to […]
Lipchenko's Wonderland
It gets a little solitary and windswept out here on Myth Point, tending our lonely beacon with only gulls and other Carroll outcasts for company, so we’re taking a welcome break to talk of other things. Namely the amazing Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (ISBN 978-0-88776932-0) illustrations of Oleg Lipchenko, that have just won the 2009 […]
Wilful Myth-Blindness 1: "Alice I Never Was"
We’re going to be doing an occasional (probably very occasional) series called “Wilful Myth-Blindness”, where we look at examples of writing that determinedly re-states the old Carroll Myths, or indeed any other tired old Myths, as if the evidence to the contrary just wasn’t there. To kick this off, here’s Melanie Benjamin’s 2010 historical novel […]