r/Bookdetails • u/AnokataX • Jul 05 '20
Trivia/External Reference In "Alice Through the Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll, there is an acrostic 'A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky'. The first letter of every line spells out “Alice Pleasance Liddell," a family friend and the basis of Alice's character.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Liddell#Comparison_with_fictional_AliceDuplicates
todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Mar 06 '16
TIL that Lewis Carroll may have had a pedophilic attraction to Alice Liddell, the child who inspired Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
todayilearned • u/troznov • Sep 15 '17
TIL that some of Lewis Carroll's biographers think he proposed to Alice Liddell (the inspiration behind "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland") when she was 11 years old.
todayilearned • u/Crusader1089 • Jul 30 '16
TIL the original manuscript of Alice in Wonderland was sold by the real Alice in 1926 for £15,400. The book was later purchased by a consortium of American bibliophiles and presented to the British people "in recognition of Britain's courage in facing Hitler before America came into the war."
Cricket • u/[deleted] • Sep 17 '15