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Lewis Carroll's Alice books and their effect on other childrens' stories and society
The Alice books have established their place in literary history. Tim Burton's film's success underlines the continuing appeal of the original Victorian story.
England is famous for children's stories, and Charles Dodgson's story created for Alice Liddell (at age 5 or 6) on an Oxford punt, is quintessentially so. It is also one of the few English children's stories that feature a heroine. Dodgson's writer contemporaries were inspired to continue Alice's adventures soon after it appeared. It may even have been the cornerstone of a wealth of girls' literature at the beginning of the twentieth century, culminating in their annuals and magazines later in the century.
Alice In Wonderland offered comfort and security, particularly during the raging of world wars, being widely and keenly read. During the nineteen-fifties, in a search for a new and brutal literature, I think she was relegated to the nursery. Serious educators were not going to set exams on the appearance of the Jabberwocky and no one seemed to connect the 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves...' of Lewis Carroll to the language James Joyce was credited with inventing although now it is easy (to see) Carroll's influence on him. But Alice was not to stay in the nursery for long.
In the eighties and nineties, perhaps as a result of children's literature becoming best sellers, attention was turned again to the educational value of Carroll and the adventures of Alice began appearing on GCE exams and in PhD dissertations. More research developed on Lewis Carroll, his mathematics, poetry and his sources, and cults emerged and increased into the third millennium.
Those who would draw attention to a darker side of Alice's adventures point out that Lewis Carroll's photos of young girls, although always in reserved Victorian garb, could be seen as near paedophilia. This ‘other' side of the Victorian era has been documented, in contrast to the Victorian morals. What really happened in the everyday experience of ordinary folk is more likely to be learned from letters, family histories, personal journals and autobiographies than well-known novelists, such as Dickens and the Brontes. Publishers in those days adhered to the conventional line.
Today, with members of the Catholic clergy revealed as prime perpetrators, we can take a more liberal view of Lewis Carroll's photographs and his open love and admiration for young girls. Lewis Carroll was childless, and those photos were likely a path for him into the sphere children inhabit, so that he could champion them, which he did with aplomb. Victorian young ladies were subjected to the most cruel and almost sadistic repression in schools and at home. When he advised his young charges to go paddling with him at the beach, even bringing them safety pins with which to tie up their voluminous petticoats, we can draw two conclusions. Either he had a passion for their ankles or he simply wanted to see them run about and enjoy the freedom of the beach, which was only just becoming socially acceptable as a prerequisite for it being popular.
Carroll's Alice was never able to leave home and go in search of adventure, she is a heroine who may never escape 'the nothingness'; a little girl who will always reside in the never-never land of childhood. Though "Alice in Wonderland", the film, also sees Alice as a nubile young girl with the possibility of a real life before her, although this possibility does not appear until the very end of the movie.
About the Author
Eliza Wyatt has written a new Alice book called Alice Leaves Wonderland.This was based on the award winning script she wrote for the musical, "Alice's World", with music and lyrics by David Ingledew. They presented this at the Brighton Festival Fringe, in the UK in 2010, after a preview at the Marlborough Theatre, December 2009 (also UK). Both of these outings of the musical happened before Tim Burton's 3-d movie arrived in England. "Alice's World" the musical is available for production by arrangement with the authors.
ebook available at Alice Leaves Wonderland
or Alice In Wonderland 2
From her first play, THE ASSASSINATION OF ROBERT F. KENNEDY, which was produced at the Loeb Drama Center, Harvard University, Eliza Wyatt has had numerous productions of her work and won many American and English awards for her writing including two Moondance International Film Festival first prizes and Best Playwright of the Edinburgh Fringe for FLOWERS OF RED.
can anyone give me some good online resources for decorated book pages and altered journals?
im looking to start decorating pages of books i make, in the style of altered journals, but more like drawings and border decorations. does anyone know of some good online resourses for techniques and inspiration. i especially like victorian, celtic, mythology and woodcut styles.
Similar to Craftster is Splitcoaststampers. They have a number of galleries devoted to altered and decorated books in the gallery provided below. The site primarily focuses on the use of rubber stamps to create cards and crafts, but also has tutorials for a number of projects
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