A gorgeous book on the life of the girl behind Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass. It tells of Alice Liddell and her childhood, growing up with her family and their friend Charles Dodgeson the storyteller and photographer. From one particular controversy her life is tu...
One of the things I was most impressed about with this book was the way the author managed to perfectly capture the voice of Alice as a young girl through her growing into a young lady on into middle age and old age. Ms. Benjamin has blended known facts with imagined circumstances to give us a fasci...
I had been dreading to read this book because of some of the rather bad reviews. Still, my interest was piqued so I had to try it. I borrowed this from the library and finally forced myself to read it today. I really liked it. It was a nice perspective to read from Alice's point of view. This s...
I must admit I didn't know anything about Alice Liddell Hargreaves and Charles Dodson (Lewis Carroll) other than she inspired him to write one of my favorite novels of all time Alice's Adventures in Wonderland I have learned so much about both characters and their relationship to each other. I re...
"Really, the impertinence of these people! They made my whole life sound like a cheap novel." So proclaims protagonist Alice Liddell Hargreaves in Melanie Benjamin's intimate fictional reconstruction of her life. Despite this self-deprecating dig from the author, Alice I Have Been is anything but ta...
This book was so SAD! I had tears running down my face for most of the second half of this novel. Something terrible would happen, and I'd be all, "That's just AWFUL!" and I'd start crying. And then just as I was getting over that tragedy, something else would happen and the whole cycle would repeat...
Did... I find Benjamin's handling of Alice and Dogdson's 'relationship' to be nuanced and deft?: YES. She articulates, without judgment (or permission), the possible reality of what occurred between them, allowing the reader to formulate their own opinion.Did... I shed tears once I finished this bo...
Having always been fond of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, I was very excited to read Alice I Have Been so I could get a glance at what Alice Liddel's life could have been like. I'll be honest in saying that I didn't really like Alice from Carroll's world, she was entirely too contrary and comp...
Wonderful. I treated this book as a fiction and ignored the accuracy of the historical facts. I found her Alice story fascinating, how the book and her relationship with Dodgson became a burden and a cage until she finally has the courage to face her memory. I might not ever going to read it again ...
This book is the story of Alice Liddel, the girl for whom Lewis Carrol wrote Alice in Wonderland. In a way, it is also the back story to the whole Alice in Wonderland phenomena, although the focus is definitely on the life of Miss Liddel. It is the third book of this type that I have read recently...
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