The Real Alice

This book is over 200 pages long and contains a lot of information on Alice Liddell. It also includes a great deal of information on various relatives of hers, so much information that, at times, the book reads more like a geneological report than a regular book. There are some nuggets of information, though, like Alice is related to Queen Elizabeth II, many of Dodgson's papers were burned when he died (and there are also complete diaries of his missing and some pages from one of his other diaries), Alice's mother burned all of Dodgson's letters to Alice, and the caterpillar's question -Who are you?- refers to the concept of status in the English society of that time.

It's a good book, yes, but a little too detailed on the relationship of various relatives.

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