Alice's Oxford

People and Places that Inspired Wonderland

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass are two of the most famous fantasies in world literature, and yet their roots are firmly in nineteenth century and the university city of Oxford, England. Oxford’s, streets, colleges and buildings, the River Thames, and the villages on its banks, are imbued with literally hundreds of intricate connections to the books. Their author, Charles Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, spent most of his life as an academic at Christ Church, one of the largest and oldest of the Oxford colleges. His muse, Alice Liddell, who is the thinly-disguised Alice of the books, was the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, and lshe lived there as she was growing up. The ‘Alice’ books began as stories told to Alice and her sisters, and Dodgson incorporated local people, places, and events that they would recognise. But as the books grew, he included a much wider range of satire and caricature, until Oxford itself became an eccentric Wonderland. This book, a guide and a history, explores the city, the colleges, and the river that Alice and Lewis Carroll knew and shared, in all their eccentric and entertaining glory.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-04-24
Mått129 x 198 x 18 mm
Vikt334 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor120
FörlagBodleian Library
ISBN9781851246298

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About this bookBefore we begin: ‘Dodgson’ and ‘Carroll’Alice, Charles and Oxford The real Alice: what Alice would have known What Charles Dodgson knew and whatLewis Carroll wroteThe Alice of Wonderland and Looking-GlassThe books and this bookThe curious case of John TennielThe CityAshmolean MuseumOxford Botanic Garden – and other GardensHigh Street: a bank, marmalade, two (or three) hattersand an hotel92–4 The Old Bank and the mysterious Mr Forster83–4 The marmalade makers48–9 The mad High Street hatter22 Yet another hatter17–18 The Mitre: a most distinguished establishmentMuseum of Natural History: a rabbit, a dodo and a fishPembroke College and a bat The railway comes to OxfordThe other railwaysThe paper houseAn invisible uncleSt Aldate’s: Alice’s Shop and a sheepTrinity College and a duckChrist ChurchCathedral windows: legend, tragedy and a catChapter House door and Queen AliceChrist Church Meadow and the way to the riverDeanery garden: Alice’s worldGreat Hall and Alice’s neckTom Quad and the writing of AliceTom Tower and Great Tom: time mattersThe RiverFolly BridgeUpstreamBinsey, a dormouse, and a wellGodstow and some wel trapsPort MeadowDownstreamIffleyNunehamSandford