Alice in slumberland: bed once belonging to Alice Liddell comes to auction
Alice Liddell was just a 10-year-old living in Oxford in the 1860s when Charles Dodgson – better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll – spun a fantastical tale to her and her two sisters Edith and Lorina on a summer afternoon by the Thames.
Implored by the persuasive young Alice, Dodgson wrote down and illustrated his stories which became…