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Knight Letter No. 85 ^ ^ KNIGHT LETTER ^ ^^ ^ The Lewis Carroll Society ofNorth America Winter 2010 Volume II Issue 15 Number 85 Knight Letter is the official magazine of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America. It is published twice a year and is distributed free to all members. Editorial correspondence should be sent to the Editor in Chief at [email protected]. SUBMISSIONS Submissions for The Rectory Umbrella and Mischmasch should be sent to [email protected]. Submissions and suggestions for Serendipity and Sic Sic Sic should be sent to [email protected]. Submissions and suggestions for From OurFar-Flung Correspondents should be sent to [email protected]. © 2010 The Lewis Carroll Society of North America ISSN 0193-886X Sarah Adams-Kiddy, Editor in Chief Mahendra Singh, Editor, The Rectory Umbrella Sarah Adams-Kiddy ^ Ray Kiddy, Editors, Mischmasch James Welsch 6^ Rachel Eley, Editors, From Our Far-Rung Correspondents Mark Burstein, Production Editor Andrew H. Ogus, Designer THE LEWIS CARROLL SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA President: Mark Burstein, [email protected] Vice-President: Cindy Watte r, [email protected] Secretary: Clare Imholtz, [email protected] www.LewisCarroll . org Annual membership dues are U.S. $35 (regular), $50 (international), and $100 (sustaining). Subscriptions, correspondence, and inquiries should be addressed to: Clare Imholtz, LCSNA Secretary 11935 Beltsville Dr. Beltsville, Maryland 20705 Additional Contributors to This Issue Barbara Adams, Ruth Berman, Angelica Carpenter, Bonnie Hagerman, Alan Tannenbaum, Cindy Watter On the cover: Secret Garden, digital collage by Adriana Peliano. Seepage 21. 1 -^ -^0^ ^ CONTENTS H^ i^y„s^ ^S ^i^"^^^ ^ THe ReCTORY UMBRSLLA OF BOOKS AND THINGS m Livefrom Lincoln Center Evermore Everson 's Everytype! 45 MARK BURSTEIN MARK BURSTEIN Keith Shepard's Wonderland Revisited, Meeting Mr. Dodgson and the Games Alice Played There 46 ANDREW SELLON SARAH ADAMS- KIDDY Contemporary Sylvie and Bruno Reviews: T. Holden 's Alice in Verse: A Further Concatenation 11 J. The Lost Rhymes of Wonderland 46 CLARE IMHOLTZ HAYLEY RUSHING Alice Under Skies 17 Mahendra Singh's The Hunting of the Snark 47 CHRIS MATHESON STEPHANIE LOVETT Carrollian in Brazil: Adraina Peliano, Part One 21 A C. M. Rubin 's The Real Alice in Wonderland 48 ANDREW SELLON & MAHENDRA SINGH RAY KIDDY Am L Blue? 27 Nancy Wiley 's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 48 MARK BURSTEIN RAY KIDDY MISCHMASCH Katherine Neville's "En Passant" 49 AUGUST IMHOLTZ, JR. «« Susina 's The Place of Lewis Carroll Leaves from the Deanery Garden—Sic, Sic, Sic Jan Literature Serendipity —Ravings from the Writing Desk 31 in Children's 49 CLARE IMHOLTZ What 's a Snark ? 35 MARKJARMON Maxim Mitrofanov 's Alisa v Zazerkale 5 AUGUSTA. IMHOLTZ, JR. Lewis Carroll Tests Outfabberwocky 3® Looking-Glass JENN THORSON Gavin O 'Keefe 's Through the 5 ANDREW OGUS CARROLLIAN NOTGS 11th Hour Ensemble 's Alice 5 * m JAMES WELSCH The Antipathies, I Think— 38 R. DICKEY FROM OUR FAR-FLUNG LESTER CORReSPONDSNTS Alice Speaks 38 M DAVID SCHAEFER Art & Illustration—Articles (sf Academia Books—Cyberspace—Events, Exhibits, (sf Places Guildford: A Lewis Carroll Society Study Weekend 40 Movies 6f Television—Performing Arts—Things 53 AUGUST A. IMHOLTZ, JR. The Oxford Experience: Edward Wakeling at Christ Church 43 ANN BUKI » "* r\^f^J>^ ^^-^ •1^:::^ ediTOKial ^^- 1e ''his issue takes us all over the world . from with "Alice Speaks." Brazil, where we interview Adriana Peliano, Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this is- artist and president of the Sociedade Lewis sue is that for the first time we have color pictures! Carroll do Brasil, to England, where Ann Buki de- New LCSNA president Mark Burstein's article "Am I scribes Edward Wakeling's class and August Imholtz, Blue?" discusses the changing colors of Alice's dress Jr., reports on LCS (UK) activities in Guildford, to in various early editions of Wonderland. While we did Russia for a review of a new version of Through the consider sending each member a box of crayons with Looking-Glass illustrated by Maxim Mitrofanov and, which to fill in the colors (but only after we'd realized finally, Lester Dickey's article takes us to the Antipa- that the Knight L^ff^- staffjust didn't have time to wa- thies! tercolor every issue, sorry!), we finally settled on hav- Next, Andrew Sellon expands the talk he gave ing our printer include a small color section. Please at the fall meeting to explain how he grew up with do let us know if you like it! Lewis Carroll, rediscovered him in acting school, and On a personal note, having taken on the editor- ultimately became the president of the LCSNA. This in-chief position last issue, I must temporarily hand it is the first in what we hope will be an ongoing series off again. As some of you already know, Ray and I are of articles written by members about how they first expecting Tweedles, I mean twins, in February. Fortu- discovered or were introduced to the works of Lewis nately, the capable hands of Mahendra Singh, editor Carroll. Do you have a story you'd like to share? of the Rectory Umbrella section and Snark illustrator We also have for you "Alice Under Skies," Chris extraordinaire, are available, and our excellent staff Matheson's thoughts on Looking-Glass, a companion of Andrew Ogus, Mark Burstein, James Welch, and to his article on Wonderland, "Lewis Carroll: The King Rachel Eley, as well as our miscellany of reviewers and of Comedy," in our previous issue. Two short fiction Far-Flung contributors, are there to back him up. But pieces, "What's a Snark?" and "Lewis Carroll Tests Out this team can always use a little extra help, if you'd 'Jabberwocky'" come to us from Mark Jarmon and like to volunteer. Jenn Thorson, respectively. Clare Imholtz provides Like the Cheshire Cat, I will return when you us with further Sylvie and Bruno reviews, and David least expect it, but for now, I disappear, leaving only Schaefer adds to our knowledge of Alice filmography a grin. SARAH ADAMS-KIDDY IV THe ReCTORY UMBRBLLA Our fabulous Fall 2010 meeting in New York After being introduced by our president, An- City began in the traditional manner. Here drew Sellon, Edward first welcomed the audience of is that story, in the words of Mary Schaefer: around 70, which included eight former or current "The Maxine Schaefer Memorial Children's LCSNA presidents, Morton Cohen, and other lumi- Reading was held Friday morning, November 5, at naries. The NYIT has about 15,000 students, repre- the Earth School on Manhattan's Lower East Side. senting 106 countries, with about half grad and half Twenty-five fourth- and fifth-grade students and their undergrads. It is a "global university," with other cam- teachers were present, as were several LCSNA mem- puses in Canada, China, and the Middle East. bers who were not direcdy involved in the reading, Edward's talk was entitled "Greetings, and a Few but whose presence and participation are always a big Wise Words about Martin Gardner." Dr. Guiliano feels plus. Patt Griffin did the reading (the tea party). The that there were three pivotal events that accounted kids loved it—and they loved Patt's rendition! All of for our presence there—a certain boat ride on July 4, them were familiar with Alice in movie or book form, 1862; the publication of The Annotated Alice in 1960, and a couple of them brought along copies that had which garnered academic acceptance of Carroll stud- belonged to their grandparents or parents. A ques- ies; and the founding of the LCSNA in 1974. Martin tion-and-answer period followed the reading, and the Gardner was fully or partially responsible for two of questions were many and varied. (So Alice was a real the three. person? That was interesting news! And how about Edward is a renowned expert on Victorian litera- Mr. Dodgson, who had two names! When did this take ture, and he first regaled us with tales of what was read place?) It was a fun reading for all of us." back in those days, such as the bestselling, voluminous For the main meeting on Saturday, Dr. Edward The Last of the Mortimers by Mrs. Oliphant or Mary Eliz- Guiliano, a former president of our Society who is abeth Braddon's sensationalistic Lady Audley's Secret. now the president and CEO of the New York Insti- Both are now forgotten, but they were long consid- tute of Technology, kindly provided us with the per- ered suitable subjects for academic study, an honor fect meeting space, located within their Lincoln Cen- not accorded Mr. Carroll's works until 1964 (!) —and ter campus. The technology, as one might expect, only then thanks to the work of Martin Gardner. Ed- was first-rate, with a number of wall-mounted video ward described meeting Martin at the first LCSNA flatscreens in flawless synch with the main one for our gathering in 1974 and several other meetings over the presentations. next five years, working with him a bit on Lewis Car- completed rendition in print. He has kindly given us roll Observed, and working together more substantively a preview; see inside back cover. on The Wasp in a Wig. Guiliano's tale of the discovery Adam Gopnik, the famed New Kwife^writer and es- of the manuscript and its purchase from Sotheby's by sayist {Paris to the Moon) last honored us with his witty Norman Armour was fascinating. Armour bought it as presence in 2006, when he discussed his introduc- an investment and didn't want to see it published—as tion to Martin Gardner's new edition of The Annotated he thought that would diminish its value! Edward's Snark.
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