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The metaphor appears in many Victorian children's book written by Christian naturalists, such as in Charles Kingsley's "Water Babies", Margaret Gatty's "Parables From Nature", or George MacDonald's "Phantastes" #insectweek @insectweek #scicomm
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The #lookingglass2021 anniversary also led to my @guardian debut - to comment on the commemorative 50p coins minted for the anniversary that joined a series of blunders on literary commemorative coins (thanks to @alisonflood!) /9 https://t.co/sBOqhRGkkp
Moving on from Lacombe to the fantastic Kirsty Mitchell - focusing on the presentation of the female body. Mitchell calls herself an "artist with her camera", not a photographer - as her handmade costumes show #lookingglass2021
Alice as exploration of things that need to be still made possible& create acceptance for them in another space of imagination ties all these talks together says @Filipus_Gilang reflecting on avatars in video games&gender fluidity, and their importance in wider society citing D&D
Now it's time for the lunch break! Feel free to either hang out in our social space, or catch up with our pre recorded roundtable on illustration - or just take a deep breath! In either case - see you shortly for our first keynote lecture by Diane Waggoner!
#lookingglass2021
And now more on Carroll in Dorothy Sayers and Jorge Luis Borges - did I know Sayers worked on the famous Guinness adverts starring the Toucan? I did not! Not sure if they're Sayers' work, but here are some Carrollian ones #lookingglass2021
Michelle Moore on Alice through the modernist American Looking-Glass and the transformation of the text into cultural phenomenon #lookingglass2021
@agnesjuliet omg, sympathise so much. I recently described *that* type of university accommodation which I was in as a building made of mold & damp held together by slugs.
they did find a secret basement full of weird Victorian stuff in it,though,when investigating where the mice came from.
@Felicea @SongoftheRiver1 Da musste ich unfreiwillig an "Kunst aufräumen" denken: