Searching for Alice

From de Grummond Collection to Oxford, England

Teresa S. Welsh, Ph.D., MLISteresa.welsh@usm.edu

Illustration by John Tenniel (1820-1914)

Background The Reverend Charles L. Dodgson (1832-1898), an Oxford mathematician whose pen name was Lewis Carroll, was fond of children and became friends with the three young daughters of the Dean of his college, Christ Church.

One summer's day in 1862 he entertained them on a boat trip with a story of Alice's adventures in a magical world entered through a rabbit-hole. Ten-year-old Alice was so entranced that she begged him to write it down for her. It took him some time to hand-write the tale and complete the 37 illustrations.

Alice finally received the 90-page book, dedicated to 'a dear child, in memory of a

summer day', in November 1864. The original manuscript is owned by the British Library and is available online in digital format: ww.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/alice/accessible/page1.html#content

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“A Boat, Beneath a Sunny Sky” by Lewis Carroll

A boat, beneath a sunny skyLingering onward dreamilyIn an evening of July –

Children three that nestle near,Eager eye and willing ear,Pleased a simple tale to hear –

Long has paled that sunny sky:Echoes fade and memories die:Autumn frosts have slain July.

Still she haunts me, phantomwise,Alice moving under skiesNever seen by waking eyes

Children yet, the tale to hear,Eager eye and willing ear,Lovingly shall nestle near.

In a Wonderland they lie,Dreaming as the days go by,Dreaming as the summers die:

Ever drifting down the stream –Lingering in a golden dream –Life, what is it but a dream?

(Through the Looking Glass, 1871)

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Photos of Alice Liddell by Charles Dodgson

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The original copy of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, hand-written and illustrated by Charles Dodgson (1864).

Image courtesy of the British Library

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First Edition

After financing the printing and publishing of 2,000 copies of the story out of his own pocket, Dodgson and illustrator John Tenniel felt the inking of the text and the artwork did not measure up to their standards.

Dodgson had presented 48 copies to friends and family; the remaining unbound sheets were sold to American publisher Appleton; 2,000 improved copies were published by Macmillan.

Only 23 copies of the first 1865 edition of Alice are known to have survived.

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de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection

The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection is one of North America's leading research centers for children's literature. The main focus of the Collection is on American and British children's literature.

The Collection was founded in 1966 by Dr. Lena Y. de Grummond, who taught children’s literature in the School of Library Science.

The Collection holds the original manuscripts and illustrations of more than 1300 authors and illustrators, as well as 160,000+ published books dating from 1530 to the present

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Earliest Alice in Wonderland in de Grummond (1869)

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll with illustrations by John Tenniel, Lee & Shepard, Boston, 1869. http://digital.library.yale.edu/cdm/ref/collection/rebooks/id/25137

Aventures d'Alice: Au Pays des Merveilles par Lewis Carroll; traduit de L‘Anglais par Henri Bué, Macmillan, London (1st French edition), 1869

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5cZDUvOTKM

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll with illustrations by John Tenniel, McMillan, London, 1887.

Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll with illustrations by John Tenniel, Macmillan, London, 1887

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Alice in Wonderland: A Play

Alice in Wonderland: A Play Compiled from Lewis Carroll's stories Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Emily Prime Delafield

Published by Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1898.

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The Story of Lewis Carroll

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35990/35990-h/35990-h.htm

The Story of Lewis Carroll: Told for Young People by the Real Alice in Wonderland by Isa Bowman

With a diary and numerous facsimile letters written to Miss Isa Bowman and others; many sketches and photos by Lewis Carroll and other illustrations

Published by E.P. Dutton, New York, c. 1899

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The Nursery Alice

• A shortened version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was adapted by the author for younger children "from nought to five“

• Includes 20 of John Tenniel's illustrations from the original book, colored and enlarged

• First published in 1890 by Macmillan, it featured a new cover illustrated by E. Gertrude Thomson, a good friend of Dodgson

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Alice in Wonderland

• Alice in Wonderland: Junior Library Edition by Lewis Carroll illustrated by John Tenniell

• The World’s Popular Classics: Art-Type Edition published by J.G. Ferguson & Assoc., Chicago, 1939

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Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass

• Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass in One Volume by Lewis Carroll illustrated with the World-Famous Drawings of Sir John Tenniell

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The Annotated Alice (1960)

• The Annotated Alice: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass in One Volume by Lewis Carroll illustrated by John Tenniell with notes by Martin Gardner

• Published by Bramhall House, New York, 1960

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The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition (2000)

• The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition by Lewis Carroll illustrated by John Tenniell and peter Newell with notes by Martin Gardner

• Combined and updated The Annotated Alice (1960) and More Annotated Alice (1990)

• Published by W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 2000.

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Walter Anderson’s Alice

Anderson’s Alice: Walter Anderson Illustrates Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Published in 1983 by University Press of Mississippi

Walter Anderson Museum, Ocean Springs, MS walterandersonmuseum.org/

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Alice in Wonderland: A Norton Critical Edition

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, edited by Donald J. Gray

A Norton Critical Edition published by W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 2013.

Reprint of the 1897 editions of Alice’s Adventures and Through the Looking Glass and 1876 edition of The Hunting of the Snark. Contains annotations, contextual materials, letters and diary entries.

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The Complete Alice in Wonderland

The Complete Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, edited by Kent David Kelly

Kindle Edition published by Wonderland Imprints, 3rd edition, 2013.

Complete texts of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, The Nursery Alice, The Hunting of the Snark, and all of Carroll’s poems.

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OXFORD, ENGLAND (City of “Dreaming Spires”)

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Steps of Bodleian Library, University of Oxford24

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Radcliff Camera Reading Room, Bodleian Library26

I hereby undertake not to remove from the Library, nor to mark, deface, or injure in any way, any volume, document or other object belonging to it or in its custody; not to bring into the Library, or kindle therein, any fire or flame, and not to smoke in the Library; and I promise to obey all rules of the Library.

--Bodleian Library Oath

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Christ Church, University of Oxford29

Christ Church, University of Oxford30

Rear of Christ Church, University of Oxford31

Christ Church Inner Gardens, University of Oxford32

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Christ Church Cathedral Cemetery, University of Oxford34

Rear Walk, Christ Church Cathedral, University of Oxford35

Side Garden, Christ Church Cathedral, University of Oxford36

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Christ Church Academic Library, University of Oxford (2011)39

Christ Church Academic Library, University of Oxford40

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Staircase to Great Dining Hall, Christ Church, University of Oxford42

43 Fireplace, Great Dining Hall, Christ ChurchStaircase to Great Dining Hall, Christ Church

44 Fireplace Andiron, Great Dining Hall, Christ ChurchAlice illustration by John Tenniel

Great Dining Hall, Christ Church, University of Oxford

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Great Dining Hall Dais, Christ Church, University of Oxford46

Alice Window, Great Dining Hall, Christ Church47

Christ Church Cathedral, University of Oxford48

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Selected Bibliography Lewis Carroll and Alice, Christ Church, Oxford http://

www.chch.ox.ac.uk/visiting/alice

Alice’s Adventures Under Ground https://archive.org/details/AlicesAdventuresUnderGround

Alice’s Shop, Oxford http://www.aliceinwonderlandshop.co.uk/tours.html

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,150th Anniversary Animated Edition for Tablets http://alicewinks.com/

The Tenniel Illustrations for Alice in Wonderland http://www.gutenberg.org/files/114/114-h/114-h.htm

Virtual Tour of Christ Church http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/visiting/panoramas

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Thank you for your attention…

Questions?

Teresa S. Welsh, Ph.D., MLISteresa.welsh@usm.edu

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