![]() ![]() ![]() Alice went on to become one of the best-selling children’s books in the world. It quickly became hugely popular and was followed by the sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, in 1871. He has provided illustrations for Folio Society editions of The Blue Fairy Book, The Wind in the Willows, and a Limited Centenary Edition of Wind In The Willows. Family friends eventually persuaded Dodgson to seek publication, and the book was published by Macmillan in 1865 under his pen name. After regaling Alice and her friends with the tale on a boating trip, he was persuaded to write it down as a keepsake. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland began life as a story for Alice Liddell, daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, Henry George Liddell. as the Folio Societys The Wind in the Willows, & the Blue Fairy Book. His early writing included essays, poetry and pamphlets, but it was his children’s books that would earn him fame. Charles Van Sandwyk is a Vancouver artist and author who has attained renowned. ![]() A talented mathematician and voracious reader, Dodgson attended Richmond Grammar School and Rugby School before studying and later lecturing at Christ Church College, Oxford. The third of eleven children, he was raised in his clergyman father’s rectory for much of his youth. ![]() Lewis Carroll is the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who was born in the village of Daresbury, England, on 27 January 1832. illustrations for his new edition of The Wind in the Willows, Charles van Sandwyk touched on a point that is key to understanding his art and career: the difference between an illustrator cre ating scenes from a story and an artist working in collaboration with the story. ![]()
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