Benjamin, Melanie. Alice I Have Been. Delacorte.
With the March 5 movie release of Tim Burton's "Alice In Wonderland" questions reemerge about the real-life inspiration for Lewis Carroll's classic. In novel form supported by extensive research Benjamin pictures the pampered Oxford childhood of Alice Liddell and her "relationship" with stuttering mathematics teacher Charles Dodgson (Carroll's true name). The suggestion is made that little Alice encouraged Dodgson's fondness which led to her family forbidding any further association. In later life Alice would sell at auction an original copy of "Alice's Adventures" to pay bills. Highlights of adulthoood include an affair with the youngest son of Queen Victoria and marriage to a country gentleman.
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