Frances Wilson is bowled over by a love letter to Alice in Wonderland
The child that never grew up: Alice Liddell Photo: © Lebrecht Music and Arts Photo Library / Alamy
In the opening pages of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, we are told that Alice “was very fond of pretending to be two people”. So too was Lewis Carroll, otherwise known as the Rev Charles Dodgson, lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford.
Charles Dodgson lived in a world of numbers; Lewis Carroll lived in a world of words. Dodgson’s life was an unbending routine of high table, high church and high seriousness, while Carroll could be found down a rabbit hole, in a land of puzzles, play and wild unpredictability.
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