Aug 2024 - Lewis Carroll’s Girls: Growing Up Female in Victorian England (LCSNA)

"Lewis Carroll’s Girls: Growing Up Female in Victorian England" with Karen Bourrier, Professor of English at the University of Calgary. She discusses her research and upcoming book on the lives of Lewis Carroll’s child friends. Hosted by LCSNA Board Member Diane Waggoner, Curator of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art.

This talk on Lewis Carroll’s Girls, comes out of a book project Karen Bourrier is currently working on, a collective biography of the girls that Charles Dodgson befriended. The book focuses on the child-friends who grew up in Oxford; many of Dodgson’s child-friends were the daughters of liberal, reforming academics. They were largely born in the 1850s and 1860s, at a time of expanding educational and career possibilities for women. The book project follows the thread of their lives, as they became the first women students at college, suffragists, artists, and educators. This past spring, Bourrier worked on this book as a fellow at the Life Writing Centre at Trinity College, Wolfson.

Karen Bourrier is a professor of English at the University of Calgary, where she specializes in Victorian literature and culture and women’s writing. Her most recent book is Victorian Bestseller: The Life of Dinah Craik (U Michigan, 2019).

00:00:00 Intro by Heather Simmons
00:02:10 Welcome by Diane Waggoner
00:04:00 Main Talk by Karen Bourrier
00:41:00 Conversation and Questions & Answers

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