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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, widely beloved British children’s book by Lewis Carroll, published in 1865. With its fantastical tales and riddles, it became one of the most popular works of English-language fiction. It was notably illustrated by British artist John Tenniel. The story centres on Alice, a young girl who falls asleep in a meadow and dreams that she follows the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole. She has many wondrous, often bizarre adventures with thoroughly illogical and very strange creatures, often changing size unexpectedly (she grows as tall as a house and shrinks to 3 ...

You know him best as the author of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.' But one writer suspected him of being Jack the Ripper.

The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas, bought the photo of Alice Liddell for £1,625 after a bidding war with London-based Chiswick Auctions.

The images were found in a Scottish family's photo album from the 1860s. One shows a stern-looking young Alice Liddell, in a smart dress, stood next to her younger sister Edith who is wearing a bonnet.

Port Meadow and the River Thames - Credit: Kevan Manwaring Walk in the footsteps of Lewis Carroll and visit the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland amid the historic water meadows of Oxford 12th-century Godstow Abbey - Credit: Kevan Manwaring One idyllic afternoon in early July, 1862, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson rowed towards Godstow with his friend Robinson Duckworth (also a man of the cloth) and three VIP passengers – Lorina, Alice, and Edith Liddell, the young daughters of the Dean of Christchurch. To pass the time, the girls asked for a story and Dodgson happily obliged, conju...