A mainly carrollian blog about Alice's adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. This blog 100% informally supports the work of Karoline Leach, Jenny Woolf, Edward Wakeling and Contraiwise association for New Carroll Studies.
Thursday 16 May 2019
Adelaide Claxton, Wonderland, 1860s-70s
This was on the front cover of the first Alice edition I ever owned, aged seven.
I think this illsutration is meant to represent a Victorian reader of Carroll's novel. If you look very closely, the book the girl is reading is entitled "Strange dreams" which being dream narratives, Carroll's Alice novels certainly are!
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