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This is the secret history of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and The Secret History of Wonderland
What you need to know before your trail
Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject. Charles Dodgson was a quiet academic but his second self, Lewis Carroll, was a storyteller, innovator and avid collector of ‘child-friends’. Carroll’s imagination was to give Alice Liddell, his ‘dream-child’, a fictional alter ego that would never let her grow up.
This is a biography that beautifully unravels the magic of Alice. It is a history of love and loss, innocence and ambiguity. It is the story of one man’s need to make a Wonderland in a changing world.
Travel Guide
Lewis Carroll Country
Where else can you meet the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, amongst others ?
The world of Lewis Carroll and Alice, that’s where
The story of Alice in Wonderland actually starts in a very real place above ground – the story came about following a journey the author had when walking along a river between Oxford and Godstow whilst trying to entertain the two little girls in his care.
Dodgson told the girls a story that featured a bored little girl named Alice who goes looking for an adventure. The girls loved it, and the real Alice asked Dodgson to write it down for her. He began writing but it wasn’t until they all went on another journey and boat trip a month later, when he started to elaborate the story and write it out in full.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and The Secret History of Wonderland
Destination: Oxford, Daresbury Author/Guide: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
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