![]() ![]() ![]() For a period of time he is a frequent and welcome visitor at the deanery. Dodgson becomes friendly with the Liddell family. ![]() ![]() Alice’s father is Dean of Christ Church and as such, Mr. Benjamin picks up each flag and gives it her own spin. Such an avocation raises all sorts of red flags for today’s reader. Alice recalls a picture-taking afternoon when, after Dodgson, looked at her, “… with an intense look, almost as if he were afraid I might disappear…” she felt herself, “blush, wondering why I felt so strangely…” Dodgson, a very good amateur photographer, has a talent for taking pictures of children (with a preference for little girls). Benjamin captures our attention of Alice’s relationship to the shy, stammering young Oxford (Christ Church) don who teaches mathematics while preparing for the deaconate. Benjamin’s novel is a fictional account of Alice as a child, a young woman and finally an octogenarian looking back on a life fuller than most. Alice I Have Been is an intriguing biographical novel of Alice Liddell and begins when Alice Hargreaves, nee Liddell, at age eighty, reflects on her recent trip to America in celebration of Lewis Carroll’s 100 th birthday. ![]()
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