Alice in Wonderland: Background Story & Art.

By Alex in Art on Feb 9, 2006 at 2:03 am

In addition to cool collection of Alice in Wonderland art, this website has a neat background story on the famous tale:

In Carroll’s original (1862-1864) manuscript for the story, Alice’s Adventures Underground, which he personally illustrated, Alice was not the little blonde girl in a pinafore we have come to know from subsequent illustrations.

Instead, she was originally a winsome, dark haired child, whose likeness had been patterned after ten year old Alice Liddell, the child of a church colleague, for whom the Alice stories had been originally created.

Wonderland background story | Artwork


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  1. Antonio Cabral
    Feb 9th, 2006 at 3:56 pm

    Martin Gardner’s “The Annotated Alice”, in any of its forms, is a big fat must.

    -T


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