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Alice in Wonderland

Meet the Staff: Q&A with Director of Development Margie Rine

April 4, 2017 - Marissa Kessenich

Margie Rine portrait

Since coming to the Ransom Center in 2008, Margie Rine has significantly contributed to the Center’s development efforts. [Read more…] about Meet the Staff: Q&A with Director of Development Margie Rine

Filed Under: Meet the Staff Tagged With: Alice in Wonderland, Ben Bradlee, Billy Collins, Colm Toibin, development, donations, donors, Ed Ruscha, endowments, Fellowships, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gone with the Wind, Grants, internships, Kate O’Toole, Mad Men, Margie Rine, Matthew Weiner, Meet the Staff, Michael Ondaatje, Peter O’Toole, philanthropy, Robert De Niro, Sally Quinn, Ted Kooser, World of Wonders

Social media: Nothing new? Commonplace books as predecessor to Pinterest

June 9, 2015 - Kelsey McKinney

Pages from a commonplace book kept by Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) with information about ciphers, anagrams, stenography, and labyrinths. Images courtesy of Harry Ransom Center.
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The Ransom Center’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland exhibition includes a commonplace book kept by Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) with information about ciphers, anagrams, stenography, and labyrinths. As Kelsey McKinney, a former public affairs intern, writes, these “personal anthologies” functioned as “literary scrapbooks”. While these scrapbooks were “commonplace” in Victorian culture, modern means of communication fulfill the same desire for people to record and share their life experiences.

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Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: Alice in Wonderland, commonplace books, Lewis Carroll, Undergraduate

Young Adventurers Film Series kicks off this weekend with Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland”

June 2, 2015 - Alicia Dietrich

Promotional poster for "Alice in Wonderland"

Disney’s film Alice in Wonderland (1951) will kick off the Ransom Center’s Young Adventurers Film Series this Saturday at 3 p.m. Other films in the series include James and the Giant Peach (1996) on June 13, Coraline (2009) on June 20, and Where the Wild Things Are (2009) on June 27.

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