
From the Digital Bodleian, Lewis Carroll’s sketch for Alice, swimming in the pool of tears.Image via Providencepubliclibary
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From the Digital Bodleian, Lewis Carroll’s sketch for Alice, swimming in the pool of tears.Image via Providencepubliclibary
`Stuff and nonsense!' said Alice loudly. `The idea of having the sentence first!' `Hold your tongue!' said the Queen, turning purple. `I won't!' said Alice.Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll's) original illustration of Alice and the Queen of Hearts for Alice's adventures Under Ground/Alice's adventures in Wonderland.
Summer of 1862.
Charles Dodgson is telling the ‘Alice’ story to the three famous sisters, Ina, Alice and Edith Liddell, while on their famous river-trips. Indications are the girls loved the tale and were always begging for new instalments, but that Dodgson was less enthusiastic (on one occasion he calls it the ‘interminable’ Alice’s Adventures, and is peeved because he wants to sing them a new song he just made up instead). At around the same time Alice asks him to write her story down. He promises he will do so.(Essay quote from Karoline Leach)