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Plot overview. There are two strands to the plot: the conspiracy against the Warden of Outland, instigated by the Sub-Warden and Chancellor, and the love of a young doctor, Arthur, for Lady Muriel. Condensed narrative. Volume 1, Sylvie and Bruno. Conspiracy in Outland; Arthur and Lady Muriel. Chapter 1.
- Lewis Carroll
- 1889
Sylvie and Bruno, novel for children by Lewis Carroll, published in 1889. The work evolved from his short story “Bruno’s Revenge,” published in 1867 in Aunt Judy’s Magazine. With its sequel, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893), it was his final work for children.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Dec 29, 2015 · Posted on December 29, 2015 by Mark Burstein. Ray Dyer, PhD, has taken the “fairy” story contained in Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, “here removed from its distracting asides, to be presented initially for specialist scholars, as a simpler and annotated didactic new edition.”
a convoluted double plot in Sylvie and Bruno. One strand chronicles a po-litical uprising in an imaginary country called Outland, which is aimed at depriving the fairy children Sylvie and Bruno of their rightful rule. The other involves a romance between two real-life residents of England, Arthur Forrester and Lady Muriel Orme.
The great depth of the Atlantic Ocean was well-known to Victorian England since 1858 and 1865-66, when submarine telegraphy-cables had been laid between Ireland and Newfoundland, by companies associated with Brunel’s ship Great Eastern, and the physicist and inventor William Thomson [Lord Kelvin].
Sylvie and Bruno, first published in 1889, and its 1893 second volume Sylvie and Bruno Concluded form the last novel by Lewis Carroll published during his lifetime. Both volumes were illustrated by Harry Furniss.
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Aug 8, 2008 · Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno (1889) has two main plots: one set in Victorian Britain and the other in a fairyland, referred to as Outland or Elfland. The realistic plot is a social novel...
