Gain The Adventures Of Alice: The Stories Behind The Stories Prepared By Mavis Batey Rendered As Print

Curious little book. Onlypages or so, I read it easily in a couple of evenings, On one hand a fairly dry account of Lewis Carroll's environment and the entries of his diary when he met up with Alice Liddell it becomes clear that the strange tales in the Alice stories mirror the fairly strange lives of a very wellconnected family in Victorian Oxford.

On the other hand it highlights Lewis Carroll's fanciful mind, and his love of spinning wonder from everyday life, and sharing it.
On this level, it's a fascinating book and almost madestars,

Favourite things learnt were that Alice's birthday wasth May, and that Carroll taught symbolic logic to women and girls as he thought it "would train them to think independently and analytically to safeguard them from false statements made by politicians and what we now call the media.
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Lovely book to read if you're a big fan of the stories, .