On November 26, 1865, a children’s book was published by Macmillan in England that has remained in print ever since: Lewis Carroll’s quirky and unforgettable Alice in Wonderland.
To commemorate that event, I am posting a picture from my week in Oxford taken on July 6, for an event celebrated annually as Alice's Day, the first telling of Carroll’s story, on the River Thames in Oxford. Here is the description from the site of the Story Museum in Oxford:
One golden afternoon on 4 July 1862, Charles Dodgson, an Oxford don, took Alice Liddell and her sisters on a boating picnic up the River Thames from Folly Bridge in Oxford. To amuse the children he told them a story about a little girl, sitting bored by a riverbank, who finds herself tumbling down a rabbit hole into a topsy-turvy world called Wonderland. The story so delighted the 10-year-old Alice that she begged him to write it down – the result was Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, published in 1865 under the pen name Lewis Carroll. It became one of the best-loved children’s books ever written.
I think these charming storybook characters posing for me make a much better photograph than a picture of a printing press.
