ALICE'S ADVENTURES

I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards ', wrote Dodgson, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon ' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. In the magical world of Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom, order is turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig, time is abandoned at a tea-party, and, a chaotic game of chess makes a 7-year-old a Queen.