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Alice's Adventures Under Ground

[wsboeken] [pdf] In 1856 the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson befriended the new Dean of Christ Church College Henry Liddell and his wife and particularly the three children, Alice, Lorina and Edith. He took the girls on picnics and told them stories. Dodgson was also a celebrated Victorian photographer who had his own studio in Oxford. He photographed the girls many times. One summer’s day in 1862 (July 4th) he and his friend Robinson Duckworth entertained the girls on a boat trip in the Oxford area with a story of Alice’s adventures in a magical world entered through a rabbit-hole. The ten-year-old Alice was so entranced that she begged him to write it down for her. As an early Christmas present, in 1864 (November 26th), Carroll gave Alice a handwritten story, with his own drawings, called Alice’s Adventures Underground, dedicated to a dear child, in memory of a summer day. Urged by friends to publish the story, Dodgson re-wrote and enlarged it, removing some of the private family references and adding two new chapters. The published version, Alice in Wonderland, (1865), was illustrated by the artist John Tenniel. Many years later, in 1927, Alice was forced to sell the manusc

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