Alice again

I find this statue rather unsettling, but then ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ is itself rather unsettling, if one reads the actual book, as opposed to the various ‘sanitised’ versions.

The statue was made by Jean Argent in 1990 and presented to the town of Guildford by Municipal General Insurance Ltd, to mark the link between Lewis Carroll and the town. Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematics tutor, acquired the lease of The Chestnuts in Guildford in 1868 to provide a home for his siblings, including six sisters. He actually lived in Christchurch and only spent vacations in Guildford, although in 1871 he did complete ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ here. And in 1898 he died at The Chestnuts.

The statue stands in a garden close to The Chestnuts.

I blipped another statue of Alice when I was here two years ago . . . when it was also raining! https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/2184698507602955257