![]() ![]() Similarly, the trip on the river was only one of many. This was the first of many pictures he took of Alice, a photogenic child with a pretty habit, rather like Princess Diana’s, of tipping her chin down and looking at the camera from under her brows. Maybe Dodgson, who was born in Cheshire, wanted to remind Alice that he was the cat who could produce this exciting phenomenon.ĭodgson had met Alice as she and her sisters were playing in the deanery garden when he went to photograph it. “What could be more thrilling than to see the negative gradually take shape?” she asked in her memoir. Alice recalled watching him develop plates in his darkroom. He was one of England’s greatest 19th-century photographers. He prided himself on seeing both sides of an argument-a quality satirized in the Cheshire Cat’s answer when Alice asks which way to go: “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.”Ī further explanation of the cat’s evanescence may lie in Charles Dodgson’s hobby. More likely, scholars suggest, the cat represents Dean Stanley, a member of a prestigious Cheshire family and an Oxford clergyman skilled in pushing through ecclesiastical reforms. ![]()
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