Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 150th Anniversary

On its 150th birthday, learn some facts about the famous tale: Alice in Wonderland:

Alice is named after a real-life Alice – the 10-year-old daughter of the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University Alice Liddell, who heard, along with her two sisters, the very first version of the tale during a boat trip on the Thames, and begged Carroll to write it down. Alice’s copy of the story is now on display in The British Library.

Free digital copies from Guteberg Project

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