Isa’s Visit to Oxford was written in July 1888 and first published, in facsimile, in Isa Bowman’s 1899 biography of Dodgson:
Isa Bowman, The Story of Lewis Carroll, told for young people, London, J. M. Dent, 1899
Isa Bowman, The Story of Lewis Carroll, told for young people, New York, E. P. Dutton, 1900
Isa Bowman, Lewis Carroll as I Knew Him, New York, Dover, 1972
The text of the piece has been reprinted several times since the first publication, including:
Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, The Lewis Carroll Picture Book, London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1899
Roger Lancelyn Green (editor), The Diaries of Lewis Carroll (Volume 2), London, Cassell, 1953
Lewis Carroll, The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll, London, Spring Books (The Hamlyn Publishing Company), 1965
Translations:
Finnish: ‘Isan visiitti Oxfordissa’ in Lewis Carroll, Kirjeitä lapsiystäville, Helsinki, Loki-Kirjat, 1997.
Translation by Markus Lång.
This translation is also available in the second, revised and enlarged edition of the anthology, Kirjeitä lapsiystäville ja muita kirjoituksia, published by Books on Demand, Helsinki, 2018, where it is accompanied by relevant entries from Lewis Carroll’s diaries.
French: Isa visite oxford, Paris, Actes Sud, 1988.
Translation and notes by Alexandre Révérend.
Illustrations by Catherine Dubreuil.
French: ‘Isa visite oxford’ in Lewis Carroll, Œuvres, Paris, Robert Laffont, 1989.
Translation by Simone Lamblin.
French: ‘Isa visite oxford’ in Lewis Carroll, Œuvres, Paris, Gallimard, 1990.
Translation and notes by Alexandre Révérend.
Japanese: Included in ルイス・キャロルの想い出 /, Tokyo, 泰流社 (Tairyu-sha), 1983.
Translation by Shōgo Kawasoko of Isa Bowman’s The Story of Lewis Carroll, told for young people
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