Archive for May, 2010

Anne Anderson

Anne Anderson was a Scottish illustrator of children’s books and fairy tales. She spent her childhood in Argentina and in 1912 she married illustrator Alan Wright (with whom she collaborated on many bookssome of her work) and they settled in Berkshire. Her work has been compared to contemporaries such as Mabel Lucie Atwell (see Alice [...]

The Hunting of the Snark

Following on from my last post on Alice in Wonderland, I thought I would check out Lewis Carroll’s other work to see if there was anything interesting to be found illustartion wise. Most people aren’t even aware of anything else writen by Carroll such is the fame of the “Alice” stories. In fact he had [...]

Alice in Wonderland

Given the currently popularity of everything “Alice” following the recent movie release, I thought I would have a dig around online and see if I could find some original book illustrations. There’s plenty of stuff to be found on the subject but this page: http://ufdcweb1.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?a=alice&m=hbball at the University of Florida’s digital collections, is about the [...]