| Heather Maciak |
| ORIGINALS |
| Alice |
Although many collectors love Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, few are aware that the original heroine of the children’s classic, a dark-haired young girl named Alice Liddell, was a favourite child friend of Oxford Don Charles Dodgson, or that he created the story just for her. He spun the tale for Alice, her brother and two sisters, to while away the time as they boated down the Thames River (known in Oxford as the Isis), one summer afternoon. Alice begged Mr. Dodgson to write out her story, and two years later, he presented her with a hand-lettered epistle, complete with his own original drawings, called “Alice’s Adventures Underground”. |
| News of the wonderful story spread, and Mr. Dodgson was encouraged by friends to publish his book, so that children everywhere would be able to read it. The published book was titled “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, and Charles Dodgson adopted the pen name of Lewis Carroll. The illustrations, by the great John Tenniel, changed Alice’s image forever, from the little girl with the dark brown bob to the flaxen- tressed Alice we picture today. |
| Several years ago, I was fortunate to spend ten glorious days in England. At the British Library in London, I saw the original manuscript given by Charles Dodgson to the young Alice Liddell so long ago. In Oxford, I retraced the steps of the famous author and his little muse. I came home fascinated by the stories of the ‘real’ Alice, and was inspired to create a doll in her image. This time, although I have again created Alice with dark, neatly trimmed tresses as Charles Dodgson knew her, I have chosen to costume her as the fanciful Lewis Carroll might have envisioned her. |
| mohair wig. She wears a golden sleeves mohair wig. She wears a golden hand-windowpane cotton dress with puffed colours of the embroidery on her sleeves and a full skirt, under a white hand-embroidered pinafore with blue maryjane shoes complete her ensemble. trim. Her striped stockings mirror the colours of the embroidery on her pinafore, and ultrasuede high-strap maryjane shoes complete her ensemble. |
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