The Alice Behind Wonderland

by Simon Winchester

Book Overview

On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college dean, with a Thomas Ottewill Registered Double Folding camera, recently purchased in London.

Simon Winchester deftly uses the resulting image--as unsettling as it is famous, and the subject of bottomless speculation--as the vehicle for a brief excursion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195396197
• ISBN13: 9780195396195
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.3"