Inês Vieira Gomes (University of Lisbon) discusses her research interests in advance of her visit to the Ransom Center.
Gernsheim collection
Fellows Find: Smile (or pout!): Photographs of London’s professional primpers
![W. & D. Downey (British, active 1855–1940), [Mary Cornwallis West], ca. 1880. Albumen print with applied color (cabinet card), 6 ½ x 4 ¼ in. Gernsheim collection, 964:0488: 0002, f TR 655.11 C525 HRC-P](https://sites.utexas.edu/ransomcentermagazine/files/2016/05/Web_Mrs.-Cornwallis-West-in-hand-colored-purple-dress-in-hammock-768x1069.jpg)
Before Lillie Langtry (née Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, 1853–1929) became a stage actress, she was known as one of London’s “professional beauties.”
July 4, 1862: A Golden Afternoon with Alice and her Sisters
![Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), [Edith, Lorina, and Alice Liddell], 1858. Albumen print (cabinet card), 4 x 5.5 inches. Gernsheim Collection, Harry Ransom Center.](https://sites.utexas.edu/ransomcentermagazine/files/2015/06/P_DOD_GEN_002_300dpiEDIT-768x506.jpg)
Charles Dodgson began to tell the story of a little girl named Alice on an outing with Alice, Edith, and Lorina Liddell on July 4, 1862. He later recalled that “golden afternoon” in a poem that prefaces many editions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.