North & South

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

It was a warm day in 1862 and Lewis Carroll had taken his boss’s three daughters on a boating trip. As he rowed along the River Isis, the Oxford mathematician made up stories to entertain his passengers.

That particular day’s tale was inspired by one of his young charges, Alice Liddell, whose namesake falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world with a Mad Hatter, Cheshire cat and a white rabbit with time-keeping issues.

Carroll’s story eventually became a novel, – one of the best-loved children’s books of all time – followed by its sequel, .

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