The manuscript was circulated among friends to such acclaim that Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, as Lewis Carroll was called in his life as an Oxford don, commissioned John Tenniel, one of the most popular illustrators at the time, to provide professional “pictures” (i.e. No use at all, Lewis Carroll must have thought – and wrote a book for her, with a lot of pictures and conversations, narrating her adventures in a manuscript copy for Alice, the daughter of his Dean, Henry Liddell, at Christ Church, that she was given for a Christmas present in 1864: Alice’s Adventures Under Ground. “… what is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?” – this is the question that Alice asks herself at the opening of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, while she is “sitting by her sister on the bank” (“Down the Rabbit-Hole”). November 2021: Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: The 150th Anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s Sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
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