And as Alices childhood slips away, a peacetime of glittering balls and royal romances gives way to the urgent tide of war.įor Alice, the stakes could not be higher, for she is the mother of three grown sons, soldiers all. But even he cannot stop time, as much as he might like to. Its author, a shy, stuttering Oxford professor, does more than immortalize Alice he changes her life forever. That story, a wild tale of rabbits, queens, and a precocious young child, becomes a sensation the world over. But as she nears her eighty-first birthday, she knows that, to the world around her, she is and will always be only ∺lice. Her life was permanently dog-eared at one fateful moment in her tenth year the golden summer day she urged a grown-up friend to write down one of his fanciful stories. Does it sound ungrateful?Īlice Liddell Hargreavess life has been a richly woven tapestry: As a young woman, wife, mother, and widow, shes experienced intense passion, great privilege, and greater tragedy. But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland.
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