Simon Winchester's The Alice Behind Wonderland focuses on the photograph above, offering a biographical sketch of Chalres Dodgson, detailing what is known about Dodgson's relationship with Alice, her siblings, and the Liddell family, providing a detailed explanation of the new science of photography and why serious amateur photographers of the time came to prefer the collodion process rather than the daguerrotype, explaining how Alice prompted Dodgson to write Alice in Wonderland, and detailing some of Alice's later life as a housewife and a celebrity.
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