Founded in 1969
Taking his title from a comment made to Alice by the Looking-Glass Gnat, Brian Sibley explores the comic universe of Carrollian cartoons, chronicling their history from Dodgson’s original illustrations for Alice’s Adventures Under Ground via those for Wonderland and Looking-Glass by legendary cartoonist and political satirist, Sir John Tenniel, through to the work of his modern-day counterparts.
Clickable links for the above:
Weston Library Lecture Theatre www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/weston
Walk led by Mark Davies oxfordtowpathpress@gmail.com
The Hunting of the Snark film tickets: https://artsfestivaloxford.org/events/the-hunting-of-the-snark
Lewis Carroll: photographer of Victorian celebrities (including the Pre-Raphaelites) and of notable Whitby families.
A few of the men and women who had personal or creative significance for Carroll, and with examples of why Carroll was retrospectively called ‘the most outstanding photographer of children in the nineteenth century’.
Once Upon a Time in Oxford (and Whitby): the Origins of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland.
Carroll’s earliest published work – long before Alice – was inspired by Whitby. It was a place he revisited many times, as too did John Tenniel’s fellow Punch illustrator and Carroll acquaintance, George Du Maurier.
