Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Lewis Carroll: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Appendix A: Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (1864)
Appendix B: Lewis Carroll, The Nursery Alice (1890)
Appendix C: Lewis Carroll, “Alice on the Stage” (1886)
Appendix D: From Lewis Carroll’s Diaries and Letters (1862-90)
- Diaries
- Letters
Appendix E: Remembering Lewis Carroll
- Alice Hargreaves, “Alice’s Recollections of Carrollian Days as Told to Her Son, Caryl Hargreaves” (1932)
- Isa Bowman, The Story of Lewis Carroll (1899)
Appendix F: George MacDonald, “The Fantastic Imagination” (1893)
Appendix G: Contemporary Reviews of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- The Press (25 November 1865)
- The Publishers’ Circular (8 December 1865)
- The Bookseller (12 December 1865)
- The Guardian (15 December 1865)
- Illustrated Times (16 December 1865)
- The Athenaeum (16 December 1865)
- The Spectator (22 December 1865)
- The Spectator (22 December 1866)
- The London Review (23 December 1865)
- The Times (13 August 1868)
- John Bull (20 January 1866)
- The Literary Churchman (5 May 1866)
- The Sunderland Herald (25 May 1866)
- Aunt Judy’s Magazine (1 June 1866)
- The Examiner (15 December 1866)
- The Daily News (19 December 1866)
- The Scotsman (22 December 1866)
- The Contemporary Review (May 1869)
- “Alice Translated,” The Spectator (7 August 1869)
Appendix H: Poems Parodied in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- Isaac Watts, “Against Idleness and Mischief” (1720)
- Robert Southey, “The Old Man’s Comforts and How He Gained Them” (1799)
- David Bates, “Speak Gently” (1848)
- Jane Taylor, “The Star” (1806)
- Mary Howitt, “The Spider and the Fly” (1834)
- Isaac Watts, “The Sluggard” (1715)
- James M. Sayles, “Star of the Evening” (date unknown)
- William Mee, “Alice Gray” (c. 1815)
- Lewis Carroll, “She’s All My Fancy Painted Him” (1855)
Appendix I: Contemporary Children’s Literature
- Anonymous, The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765)
- From William Makepeace Thackeray, The Rose and the Ring (1855)
- From George MacDonald, Phantastes (1858) and The Light Princess (1891)
- From Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies (1862-63)
- From Julia Horatia Ewing, “Amelia and the Dwarfs” (1870)
Appendix J: Notable Film and Television Productions
Appendix K: Lewis Carroll’s Photographs of Alice, Lorina, and Edith Liddell
Appendix L: Quentin Massys’s An Old Woman [The Ugly Duchess] (1513)
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