Description
Product ID: | 9781782396567 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Looking Glass House |
Authors: | Author: Vanessa Tait |
Page Count: | 304 |
Subjects: | Historical fiction, Historical fiction |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Vanessa Tait, great-granddaughter of the Alice who inspired Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, tells the fascinating story of the childhood classic's strange beginnings through the eyes of a naive and deceived governess. Oxford, 1862. Poor, plain Mary Prickett takes up her post as governess to the daughters of the Dean of Christ Church. When Mary meets Charles Dodgson, a friend of the family, she is flattered by his attentions and becomes convinced he plans to propose marriage. But it is also clear that he is drawn to the little girls in Mary''s care, and on a boating trip one sunny day Mr Dodgson tells the story of Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland a curious tale about the precocious Alice Liddell |
Imprint Name: | Corvus |
Publisher Name: | Atlantic Books |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2016-01-07 |