Alice Through the Looking Glass - Guildford, Surrey, UK
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Bronze sculpture of Alice Through The Looking Glass in the gardens of Guildford Castle
Waymark Code: WM14P6R
Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/04/2021
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"This sculpture - Alice Through the Looking Glass - is located in Guildford’s Castle Grounds in a walled garden behind the bowling green, near the house that Lewis Carroll used to rent. It was created by sculptor Jeanne Argent.
Charles Dodgson, otherwise known as Lewis Carroll, the famous author of many works including Alice’s Adventures Through the Looking Glass, was a frequent visitor to Guildford where he enjoyed walking in the downs and was inspired to write some of his nonsense works including ‘The Hunting of the Snark’.
He rented a house, Chestnuts, near the Castle Grounds where he and his family often stayed. He passed away in Guildford in 1898 and is buried in The Mount Cemetery.
The sculpture was created when a friend of Jeanne Argent entered a drawing of Alice Through the Looking Glass into a competition and when the drawing won, Jeanne made the sculpture in response. The 4ft figure was modelled on the sculptor’s daughter Anne and was installed in 1990."
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"Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27, 1832 Daresbury, Cheshire - January 14, 1898 Guildford, Surrey), known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, scholar, Anglican deacon and photographer.
His most famous book is Alice in Wonderland and her subsequent sequel Behind the Mirror and what Alenka found there. The sequel to Alice's Through-the-Mirror stories (Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There) was first published in 1871. This work includes, among other things, the famous poem Tlachapoud, which shows Carroll's sense of playfulness and imagination.
His third most famous work in the world after both Alice is the allegorical poem The Hunting of the Snark (1876). Carroll's last novel was Sylvie and Bruno (1889). He published professional texts in the field of mathematics under his own name."
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