ALICE IN HER OWN WORDS

Looking at both the fiction and the fact behind Lewis Carroll's Alice How is the world of Alice in Wonderland linked to that of the young girl who was the inspiration for this much-loved story? The words written by Charles Dodgson (whose pen-name was Lewis Carroll), an Oxford don, were based on college life, word-play, and, above all, his friendship with the Liddell childrenAlice and her sisters, Lorina and Edith. The Dormouse was referring to Lorina Charlotte (LC), Lacie is an anagram of Alice and Tillie was Ediths nickname. This ch...[Read more]