Lewis Carroll and Violence

I'm off to a talk this evening that should be very interesting. Lewis Carroll’s worlds are full of violent encounters. There is the  Queen of Hearts terrorising Wonderland with threats of decapitation.  Then we have the combatants Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Lion and the Unicorn and the Red and White Knights. Let's not forget Alice kicking Bill the Lizard out of the chimney.

The British literary critic and academic, Gillian Beer – whose book, Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll, has recently been awarded the Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism – is going to explore this topic within the context of Victorian literature and society.

The details are below for people who want to go.

The Eleventh Roger Lancelyn Green Memorial Lecture

Presented by The Lewis Carroll Society

OFF WITH HER HEAD! Lewis Carroll and Violence

Professor Dame Gillian Beer

7.00 pm Friday 13 October 2017

The Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT

Tickets: £10

Book online to reserve your seat: http://lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk/store

Tickets will also be available on the door.