Alice in Wonderland: Obsession & Sublimation

Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland was inspired by a girl called Alice Liddell, the daughter of one of Carroll’s colleagues at Christ Church Oxford. Carroll, whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was a career mathematician and part-time poet/ photographer, who would, in his capacity as family friend, tell stories and take photographs of the three Liddell children; Lorina, Edith and Alice. Carroll’s…