Sir John Tenniel’s Alice In Wonderland… Curiouser & Curiouser!

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Sir John Tenniel’s Alice In Wonderland… Curiouser & Curiouser!

June 14, 2012 by Lily Wight

Posted in Art, Books, Victoriana | Tagged Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through The Looking Glass, Art, Arts, Illustrations, Images, John Tenniel, Lewis Carroll, Victorian | 9 Comments

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on June 15, 2012 at 5:50 am | Reply Claire Cappetta

Love original pictures like these, bring back so many memories of childhood reading 🙂

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- on June 15, 2012 at 7:09 pm | Reply Lily Wight
  
  Hope they didn’t give you nightmares! x
  
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  - on June 15, 2012 at 7:18 pm | Reply Claire Cappetta
    
    lol No my own challenges do that! 😉
    
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on June 15, 2012 at 10:12 am | Reply wightrabbit

I always thought these were rather dark and disturbing for what – I thought, as a child – was a fairy tale. I can now see how right they are for this weird and wonderful story!

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- on June 15, 2012 at 7:01 pm | Reply Lily Wight
  
  There are lots of brilliant new interpretations of Alice but I don’t think anything beats Tenniel’s originals. I didn’t like the books when I was little – I thought the talking flowers were mean!
  I only really learned to understand and appreciate Alice as an adult, especially the linguistic games in the text which are inspired and silly.
  I really want a go at playing the spooky Alice Xbox games but I just don’t have the time (and you can never get on the console in my house) x
  
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on June 15, 2012 at 11:13 pm | Reply The Wandering Youth

I have the book with these original pictures in them. Alice in Wonderland is so inspiring, isn’t it? It weirded me out when I was younger, but I think its fascinating now

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- on June 16, 2012 at 10:30 am | Reply Lily Wight
  
  I used to be terrified of the talking flowers! I thought they were very mean to Alice.
  It’s a book I really only learned to appreciate as an adult, especially all the little linguistic tricks and puzzles.
  There is a stop-motion film by Jan Svankmajer which is absolutely pant-wetting! x
  
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on October 17, 2013 at 6:34 pm | Reply http://www.pcdi-cameroon.org/

Articles like these put the consumer in the driver seat-very important.

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on October 30, 2013 at 8:09 pm | Reply Lily Wight

Alice is spooky whatever age you are. There is a stop-motion version, with stuffed animals, that is utterly pant-wetting.

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