- Alice Lidell, the inspiration for Caroll’s Alice in Wonderland, photographed by the writer in 1858
- The Story of Alice by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is published by Harvil Secker
- Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is a don at Oxford and specialises in Victorian history
- The original Alice drawings where all our ideas of Alice’s image stem from.
- Kendal Jenner who has just been a Vogue shoot as Alice.
- Cara Delevigne who looks like Alice.
The Story of Alice ROBERT DOUGLAS FAIRHURST Man Week on Radio Gorgeous
Podcast Length: 17 minutes 58 Seconds
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst explains Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland through the looking glass of Victorian Oxford. Written by the quiet academic Charles Dodgson under a pseudonym, Alice in Wonderland was the first children’s story that didn’t come with the dire consequences of a cautionary tale. |
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