Alice I Have Been: A Novel
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However, the most important fact that endures is a piece of fiction. A slim volume, a classic of literature still today—Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. That is what remains; that is, I think, what Alice herself would have hoped remained.
I hope you enjoyed her story.
Melanie Benjamin
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MELANIE BENJAMIN lives in the Chicago area with her husband and two sons, where she is working on her next historical novel. Visit her at her website, www.melaniebenjamin.com.
Alice I Have Been is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events; to real people, living or dead; or to real locales are intended only to give the fiction a setting in historical reality. Other names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and their resemblance, if any, to real-life counterparts is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2009 by Melanie Benjamin
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
DELACORTE PRESS is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.
Photograph of Alice as a gypsy girl by Charles Dodgson
Photograph of Alice at eighteen by Julia Margaret Cameron
Photograph of Alice as an older woman: W. Coulborn Brown, Alice Pleasance Liddell Hargreaves, 1932, 2006.660, Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATIO N DATA
Benjamin, Melanie.
Alice I have been / Melanie Benjamin.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-440-33954-0
1. Hargreaves, Alice Pleasance Liddell, 1852–1934—Fiction.
2. Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, 1832–1898—Fiction.
3. Oxford (England)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3602.E6638A79 2010
813′.6—dc22 2009035353
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