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Lewis Carroll

A young Lewis Carroll, “musing on milk” and “reasoning on rubbish”

October 13, 2016 - Danielle Sigler

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832-1898, The Rectory Magazine, 1850, manuscript. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Collection, Harry Ransom Center.

Through its digital collections portal, the Harry Ransom Center has made available a remarkable example of juvenilia from its Charles Lutwidge Dodgson collection.

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Filed Under: Digital Collections Tagged With: 19th century, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, British literature, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Danielle Brune Sigler, juvenilia, Lewis Carroll, magazine, Mark Twain, newspaper, The Rectory Magazine

Incoming fellow rebuilds an icon’s life after exile

May 9, 2016 - Kathleen Telling

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Filed Under: Research + Teaching Tagged With: 2016-2017 fellowships, Cobden-Sanderson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Doves Press, Eric Gill, Fellowships, Frank Harris, George Ives, J. G. Ballard, John Singer Sargent Murray, Kelmscott Press, Lewis Carroll, Lord Alfred Douglas, Madame X, Max Beerbohm, Oscar Wilde, Project REVEAL, The Picture of Dorian Gray, William Blake, William Rothenstein

July 4, 1862: A Golden Afternoon with Alice and her Sisters

July 2, 2015 - Harry Ransom Center

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.

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. [Read more…] about July 4, 1862: A Golden Afternoon with Alice and her Sisters

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: Alice, alice liddell, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Exhibitions, Gernsheim collection, golden afternoon, july 4, Lewis Carroll, Technology

Preserving and Enhancing Access to Physicist Owen W. Richardson’s Papers

June 17, 2015 - Marlene Renz

O. W. Richardson. What the Nobel Prize has meant for me, October 8, 1933.

With the generous support of a grant from the History Programs, American Institute of Physics, the Ransom Center has created a new online finding aid for the papers of English physicist Owen W. Richardson (1879–1959). The papers were originally processed during the 1960s and described on more than 8,000 catalog cards. Enhanced collection housing was also part of the project, improving long-term preservation of the materials.

Recognized for his pioneering work on thermionics, Sir Owen Richardson was awarded the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for [Read more…] about Preserving and Enhancing Access to Physicist Owen W. Richardson’s Papers

Filed Under: Conservation, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Albert Einstein, American Institute of Physics, Charles Darwin, Finding Aid, grant, Herschel Family, history of science, Lewis Carroll, Nobel Prize, O.W. Richardson, Owen Richardson, Photoelectricity, physics, preservation, Quantum Theory, Radiation, Richardson’s Law, Thermionics

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.

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

Undergraduate class experiences advertising hands-on with “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” exhibition

May 7, 2015 - Marlene Renz

Students in "Advertising and Popular Culture" class receive tour of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." Photo by Pete Smith.

Galit Marmor-Lavie is a professor at The University of Texas at Austin’s Moody College of Communication. This semester she brought students in her undergraduate Advertising and Popular Culture class, offered at the Stan Richards School of Advertising & Public Relations, to the Ransom Center’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland exhibition. Below, she explains the project that was inspired by the exhibition and what drew her to use the Ransom Center as a resource.

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Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + Events, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Advertising, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Galit Marmor-Lavie, I have seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America, Lewis Carroll, Undergraduate

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