#332 | The Bizarre Life of Lewis Carroll
English Learning for Curious Minds
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Alice's Adventures on the Ground
Many pages of Carroll's diary from that time have been mysteriously ripped out. The most common theory is that Alice's family grew concerned over the close relationship between their 11 year old daughter and the 31 year old man. Some even theorise that Carroll had actually proposed to Alice, he had asked the young girl to marry him. Whatever the reason for this rupture, this break, it didn't stop Carroll from carrying out Alice's wish and putting her story to paper. He carefully hand-wrote 15,000 words and decorated many pages with illustrations or drawings of the characters in the story. In the story, Carroll transformed the people in the sisters' lives into the creatures of his fantasy land.
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