Does anyone know where the script of the 1870s skit "Cakeless" is printed. I know I have seen it reproduced but just can't think where. I want to check which...
All three Jenny ... From: jenny2write To: lewiscarroll@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 9:15 PM Subject: [lewiscarroll] "Cakeless" Does anyone...
I think it was in relation to his game 'Lanrick' when he was describing the colours he wanted for his counters. As far as I remember it isn't any old pink or a...
Karoline Leach
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Dec 2, 2003 8:27 am
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Good on the local paper. Always the trusted ultimate in scientific knowledge. Now we have an instance of rediscovery of a bird thought to be extinct for...
... printed. I know I have seen it reproduced but just can't think where. I want to check which Liddell girls are mentioned in it - is it all three, or just ...
Ruth Berman
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Dec 2, 2003 3:21 pm
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I wonder if the author was confused about which Liddell girl was Rhoda and which was Edith -- "rhoda" means "rose.") I always assumed that 'Rosa' referrred to...
Karoline Leach
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Dec 2, 2003 4:26 pm
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This is now full with close on 1000 photos.It can be found via a Search on the Home Page in the <alice in wonderland> category. I have now begun the sister...
... extinct ... rufa), I don't think this is the first example of the rediscovery of a creature thought to be extinct, though I cannot think of any other ...
There was that fish found off the west coast of Africa some years ago (coelanth?) which was supposedly to have died out over 60 million years ago! However,...
keith
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Dec 3, 2003 11:58 am
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Good on you to introduce name calling into the discussion (idiot). The (idiot) might be right, as you concluded. Sounds like a fitting point to end any...
Yes, it is pleasant to think of the Dodo equietly enjoying a pint along with the Tasmanian Tiger as friends taking refuge from a sometimes nasty and cruel...
Brian, the idiot may be right but so what! 1662 or 1692 - does it matter to anyone but another Dodo? It's certainly not as significant as the prehistoric...
keith
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Dec 3, 2003 4:15 pm
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Jasper Fforde's heroine in his Thursday Next (The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book) books has a dodo for a pet. It appears that a cloning program (via kits)...
Hi, can you send me the url? Richard Anthony Astley-Clemas <alicespiral@...> wrote:This is now full with close on 1000 photos.It can be found via a ...
Have about 20 photos on my Alice sites of Anissa Jones who is possibly the rarest and most unknown Alice on film. She had something of a tragic life,dying at...
...hi- ..........i'm new here and have been a fan of the reverend and the stories for some time now. ....i am also familar with Anissa; she was in a tv show...
Does anyone know whether CLD commented at all on the disaster of 1883 when nearly 200 children were crushed to death at the Victoria Hall in Sunderland? At the...
Bryan Talbot
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Dec 10, 2003 4:05 pm
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Bryan, this disaster where 200 children were killed in a stampede to get through a door blocked so that only one child at once could get through, so tickets ...
keith
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Dec 10, 2003 5:05 pm
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Many thanks, Keith for chasing this up. ... As I said, it was a disaster of international proportions - the Victorian Aberfan. Front page of the London...
Bryan Talbot
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Dec 10, 2003 9:22 pm
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Bryan, CLD was not a great commentator upon events either national or local. For instance he happened to be away from Ch.Ch. at the end of June 1870 when he ...
Keith Wright
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Dec 11, 2003 6:20 pm
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I have been surveying LC's photographs in a comparative study of Victorian and contemporary child portraits. For that I have been using Edward Wakeling's...
Mary Hilton Badcock was the daughter of one of the canons of Ripon Cathederal and CLD recommended her to Tenniel as a model for Alice after he saw her...
Keith Wright
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Dec 12, 2003 6:04 am
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... At least he mentioned it! It was the fact that so many children perished that led me to believe he may have done in the case of the VH disaster. Bryan ...
Bryan Talbot
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Dec 12, 2003 11:23 am
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This sounds pretty silly, but where is the source for this? Is LC's letter to Tenniel recommending Mary still around? Is it published anywhere? Stupidly, I...
Karoline Leach
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Dec 12, 2003 1:44 pm
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Karoline, try the Annotated Alice by Martin Gardner 1970 p 25. it's clear though that CLD did not consider that Tenniel had used Mary Badcock as a model for...
Keith Wright
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Dec 12, 2003 5:29 pm
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Thanks for that suggestion Keith. I checked out Gardner p. 25 as you suggest, but he only repeats the story that Dodgson suggested Mary HB to Tenniel -...
Karoline Leach
Karoline@...
Dec 13, 2003 11:06 am
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I have managed to find a bit of additional info about the source of this story. Lennon (p. 116) locates it to 'A Handbook of the Literature of C.L. Dodgson'...
