The Alice Behind Wonderland by Simon Winchester
The Real Life of Alice Liddell
A compact, evidence-driven biography that reconstructs the life of Alice Liddell — the real girl who inspired Lewis Carroll’s famous tales — from her childhood in Victorian Oxford through her later years as a wife and mother, showing how intimate friendships, early photographic portraits and the gift of a handwritten manuscript became the fulcrum for a global literary myth. Drawing on letters, diaries and archival research, the narrative teases apart rumor from fact, situates the relationship with Charles Dodgson in the social and moral context of the time, and follows how private memories and public storytelling transformed a living person into an enduring cultural icon.
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