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The Looking Glass House
Vanessa Tait
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Description for The Looking Glass House
paperback. 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. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 210 x 24. Weight in Grams: 344. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
What happened before Alice fell down the rabbit hole? Oxford, 1862. As Mary Prickett takes up her post as governess to the daughters of the Dean of Christ Church, she is thrust into a strange new world. Mary is poor and plain and desperate for change but the little girls in her care see and understand far more than their naive new teacher. And there is another problem: Mary does not like children, especially the precocious Alice Liddell. When Mary meets Charles Dodgson, the Christ Church mathematics tutor, at a party at the Deanery, she wonders if he may be ... Read more
What happened before Alice fell down the rabbit hole? Oxford, 1862. As Mary Prickett takes up her post as governess to the daughters of the Dean of Christ Church, she is thrust into a strange new world. Mary is poor and plain and desperate for change but the little girls in her care see and understand far more than their naive new teacher. And there is another problem: Mary does not like children, especially the precocious Alice Liddell. When Mary meets Charles Dodgson, the Christ Church mathematics tutor, at a party at the Deanery, she wonders if he may be ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Atlantic Books United Kingdom
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of pages
304
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782396826
SKU
KOG0001797
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Ref
99-1
About Vanessa Tait
Vanessa Tait grew up in Gloucestershire. She went to the University of Manchester and completed a Master's degree in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College. She is the great-granddaughter of Alice Liddell, the little girl who inspired Lewis Carroll to write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The Looking Glass House is her first novel, inspired by family treasures and stories ... Read more
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