Adventures through The Medical Pickwick 1917 – 1920
The RACS’s Cowlishaw Collection is a library of rare books acquired by physician and bibliophile Leslie Cowlishaw in the early 20th century. Nestled within the collection is a set of bound journals titled The Medical Pickwick: A Monthly Literary Magazine for and by Physicians, published in New York in the early 20th century. RACS holds copies from 1917 to 1920. Its aim was to entertain its readers by placing emphasis on the humorous side of medical life. Join curator Helen Laffin as she delves into the light-hearted side of the medical profession, exploring the magazine’s content that includes stories, cartoons, illustrations, and even poetry and jokes.
Speakers
Curiouser and Curiouser
The several worlds of Alice in Wonderland
All in the golden afternoon… when three little girls were rowed upstream on the Thames in Oxford by two timid clergymen, a legendary story was born which became Alice in Wonderland. Since that golden afternoon, the book has continued to fire the imaginations of readers young and old; of artists and illustrators; of actors and filmmakers; of copyists, plagiarists and satirists.
Chris Browne will show us how the stories of Lewis Carroll’s Alice have enriched our lives ever since. See how different artists, writers, propagandists and satirists have added to the evolving dream worlds of Alice.
Speakers
James from Melbourne Athenaeum Library as the White Rabbit
Corrinne as the Mad Hatter
me as Queen of Hearts
Linda from East Melbourne Library in her Alice in Wonderland dress
Kay Craddock from Antiquarian Books
Dawn Albinger from Archives Fine Books