Category Archives: Lewis Carroll

Unnatural History Lessons

Posted on May 16, 2012 by

The early newspaper comic supplements used a wide variety of materials to fill their pages, among them alphabets — which could be put to several uses: satiric or purely nonsensical — seem to have been particularly appreciated. Here is an … Continue reading →

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Weekend Reading

Posted on January 21, 2012 by

Here are some links to articles on Edward Lear and nonsense for your weekend reading: Francesca Bombassei Gonella. “‘Everything’s Got a Moral, If Only You Can Fint It’: Modernità, interculturalità e sovversione del canone nella letteratura vittoriana per l’infanzia: Lewis … Continue reading →

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Something to Read

Posted on November 30, 2011 by

I do not have much time for posting at the moment, though I regularly update the list of events for the 2012 bicentenary. Here are a few interesting items on Edward Lear and nonsense in general: “Jumblies and Jabberwockies. The … Continue reading →

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Children’s Books for Christmas 1871

Posted on October 28, 2011 by

Sing-Song: a Nursery-rhyme Book. By Christina G. Rossetti. With 120 Illustrations by Arthur Hughes. Routledge. The Princess and the Goblin. By George Macdonald. Strahan. Through the Looking-glass, and what Alice saw there. By the Author of Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland. … Continue reading →

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Nonsense for Chrismas 1874

Posted on February 8, 2011 by

On 16 December 1874, Judy ran a review of nursery rhyme books, which includes a reference to Edward Lear. He is mentioned as the author of… Alice in Wonderland. While I have often received e-mails asking about the famous poems … Continue reading →

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The Day of the Wombat

Posted on January 26, 2011 by

Peacay of BibliOdyssey posts “some delightful scratchy illustrations from the 1962 book by Ruth Park, ‘The Adventures of the Muddle-headed Wombat’” in honour of Australia Day. So here is my homage. Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s lament for the death of his … Continue reading →

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Mr Leer, Humpty Dumpty and Finnegan

Posted on January 8, 2011 by

There is an interesting article in the the London Review of Books (vol. 32, no. 24, 16 December 2010), “Quashed Quotatoes,” in which Michael Wood reviews a new edition of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. The opening paragraphs discuss Joyce’s debt … Continue reading →

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The Frog and the Duck: A Romance

Posted on December 1, 2010 by

George du Maurier “took, in 1869-1870, a brief Darwinian respite from his usual labors of satirizing the Victorian drawing room” and, among other things, produced an “unusually extensive and charmingly anthropomorphic picture-story” (Kunzle 293), which appeared in three fortnightly instalments … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear's Nervous Family

Posted on December 3, 2008 by

Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library has scans of a few of their Edward Lear manuscripts online; the small collection includes self-caricatures taken from letters and original cartoons for the Nonsense Botanies, but also the full manuscript of … Continue reading →

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The Explorigator

Posted on July 18, 2008 by

Rush to Barnacle Press to enjoy the full run of The Explorigator, one of the most original, and nonsensical, comics of all times and meet a crew on a par with the one that set out to hunt the Snark.

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