Description: A one-of-a-kind memoir, this charming book was written in 1900 by Isa Bowman, who met Lewis Carroll when she was about 10 or 12. By then, he was an Oxford professor and author of the world-renowned "Alice in Wonderland" book. She played Alice in a stage version of the book and they became good friends into her teens, keeping up correspondence and visits. In her memoir, written after he died in 1886, she writes "To have been with him so long as a child, and to have known so intimately the man who above all others has understood childhood, is indeed a memory on which to look back with thanksgiving and with tears." She vividly describes his companionship, his conversations, even his silvery hair and hearty handshake. The book includes facsimiles of hand-written letters and drawings by Lewis Carroll to her, as well as photographs of his room at Oxford and photographs of children that he took himself. This is a very personal look at the notoriously shy Lewis Carroll by someone he was close to and mutually admired. A rare and beautiful book for any Alice in Wonderland collector.
Price: 99 USD
Location: Sacramento, California
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Author: Isa Bowman
Publisher: Dutton
Topic: Memoir
Subject: Lewis Carroll
Character Family: Alice in Wonderland
Original/Facsimile: Original
