Alice Without Wonderland

Off the Shelf By Julianna Haubner    |   Wednesday, December 09, 2015 Children the world over love Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Between film and literature, everyone knows of the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire Cat, the Walrus, the Carpenter, the Mad Hatter, Dinah, and the little blond girl in the blue dress, falling down a rabbit hole. What some don’t know is that the Alice of Wonderland was inspired by the real Alice Liddell of Oxford, who was only five when she first met Charles Dodgson, a nervous academic who would later assume the infamous pen name of Lewis Carroll. READ MORE