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An Italian history of pornographic photography publishes parts of a scrapbook supposedly by the author of the Alice books.

A new section on the ‘Looking for Lewis Carroll’ website

How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear! by Bertha Coolidge

It had to happen. After years of attacks to his biography of Lewis Carroll, Morton N. Cohen has replied in the pages of the Times Literary Supplement

The answer from the Groton Public Library…

Theater in the Open debuts Maudslay season with a performance of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Telos is publishing a new Alice novel which picks up nine months after where Through the Looking Glass left

Migraine aura symptoms gave rise to “Adventures in Wonderland”
Migraine aura may have been the inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s descriptions of ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,’ physicians suggest in a letter published in the April 17th issue of The Lancet.
Coining the term ‘Alice in Wonderland syndrome’ to refer to certain hallucinations specific to migraine, Lippman first [...]

The lord of misrule
By Nicola Shulman
The British response to Dr Seuss has not, so far, been suitable reading for Ms Dimond-Cates. It may be that we have an embarrassment of excellent children’s writers of our own, whom we may take seriously instead, if we are so inclined; or it may be another aspect of our [...]

Carroll birthplace put in trust’s care
THE Cheshire birthplace of one of England’s finest authors and academics has been handed over to the protection of the National Trust.Lewis Carroll was born and raised at Daresbury Parsonage, which lies in a corner of a field two miles outside the village.The double-fronted building had a lobby, parlour, study, [...]