ALICE'S OXFORD

A guide and history of the town and young girl that inspired Lewis Carolls famous Alice stories. Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass are two of the most famous fantasies in world literature, and yet their roots are firmly in the nineteenth century and the university city of Oxford. Oxfords streets, colleges, buildings, the River Thames, and the villages on its banks are imbued with hundreds of intricate connections to the booksfrom the hatters on the High Street to the dodo in the Museum of Natural History. ...[Read more]