John Bull is the personification of Great Britain (or at least of England). He was first created in 1712 by John Arbuthnot, and eventually became a common ...

Charles Dodgson had had a difficult day photographing young Victor Alexander Parnell, one of Queen Victoria's godsons. Dodgson wasn't at all certain of ...

Charles Edward Carryl (1841-1920) worked as a director of a number of railway companies until he took a position in the New York Stock Exchange, which ...

The term 'QR Code' is an abbreviation for “Quick Response Code”, and is the regis­tered trademark of Denso Wave Inc. for one of the many ...

This textual commentary looks at "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" quite simply, as a children's novel, investigating the book's narrative structure, ...

Le Prophète est un livre constitué de 26 fables écrites dans une prose poétique en anglais par le poète et philosophe ...

This book brings together in one convenient volume eight articles by Professor Nicholas Williams on the Cornish Revival. They range from his "A Problem ...

While on a business assignment in the Republic of Korea in 1985–86 Byron and Victoria Sewell immersed themselves in Korean culture and eventually ...

When their father is taken away under mysterious circumstances, Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis and their mother must leave their house in London to live in ...

Lewis Carroll published "Alice's Adventures in Wonder­land" in 1865 and "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There" in 1872. In the entry ...