The Story of Alice: The Story behind the Stories Lewis Carroll Told

by Mavis Batey

"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" began as a story told to a real child called Alice Liddell. It was based on events which she shared with Charles Dodgson, an Oxford mathmatician, who was to write under the name, Lewis Carroll. Using diaries, newpapers, reminiscences, and university records, this book tells the story behind the story.

104 pages, Paperback

First published January 23, 1998

About the author

Mavis Lilian Batey, MBE (née Lever; 5 May 1921 – 12 November 2013), was a British code-breaker during World War II. She was one of the leading female codebreakers at Bletchley Park.

She later became a historian of gardening, who campaigned to save historic parks and gardens, and an author. Batey was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal in 1985, and made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1987, in both cases for her work on the conservation of gardens.

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Reviews

[Nicholas Whyte]

http://nhw.livejournal.com/154401.html[return][return]It's rather good, especially given the length (less than 100 pages), illustrating bits of the back-story to Dodgson's writing and relationship with Alice. Batey has done a lot of (or at least has fluently recounted other people's) historical research, tying specific events in real-life Oxford of 1859-63 with specific events in the books. Very neat; I just wish there had been proper footnotes so that I knew which bits were her own research and which from other people, and ideas for what else I might read on the subject.

[Tracy-Vee Mapako · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading this book I don't want to over share but if you like finding out the story behind the story this is it !!!