This is one of the most fascinating Carrollian gardens I know. Begun by Sandor Burstein, it now flourishes in the hands of his son, Mark, who has transformed it into a true temple dedicated to the metamorphoses of Alice. Mark has served as president of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America and as editor of its Knight Letter magazine for decades. He has edited or contributed to nearly thirty books on Carroll, including The Annotated Alice: 150th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (W. W. Norton, 2015), created by Martin Gardner and expanded with Mark as editor and art director; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland illustrated by Salvador Dalí (Princeton University Press, 2015); and Alice in Comicland (IDW Publishing, 2014), among other reference works for readers, artists, and collectors.
He has also taken part in exhibitions in the United States and abroad, always expanding the dialogue between Carroll and the arts. Currently, he is part of @trilogiaventuras , an immersive exhibition in Brazil celebrating Alice in cinema and the arts. His collection brings together first editions, rare translations, Carroll’s letters and photographs, as well as contemporary artworks created especially for it. He consistently seeks what moves away from the “cute” and toward the strange, the surreal, and the eccentric. We have been friends since 2009, and he was one of the founders of the Lewis Carroll Society of Brazil.
The images show his collection in his former home in California, when it was kept in a white tower. They were taken by him during my 2015 visit for the 150th anniversary of Alice. Today, the collection is housed in the “Alice Room,” photograph by Wernher Krutein. For more, visit his site: markmywords.ws, read the book: GUILIANO, Edward. Lewis Carroll: Collections and Collectors. (University of Virginia Press; Lewis Carroll Society of North America, 2024) or his Wikipedia entry: Mark Burstein (editor).
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