"The first editions of Lewis Carroll's ""Alice ..."" books were given a special flavour by illustrations by which 19th century graphic humourist and political cartoonist?"
Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) scholars disagree about the extent to which she was based upon Liddell. Characterized by Carroll as "loving and gentle", "courteous to all", "trustful", and "wildly curious", Alice has been variously seen as clever, well-mannered, and skeptical of authority, although some commentators find more negative aspects of her personality. Her appearance changed from "Alice's Adventures Under Ground", the first draft of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", to political cartoonist John Tenniel's illustrations of her in the two "Alice" books. Alice has been identified as a cultural icon. She has been described as a departure from the usual nineteenth-century child protagonist, and the
Lewis Carroll: A Biography handling of the material to Carroll's boat trips with the children, saying, "With Cohen at the tiller, we are deftly guided through the flow of Carroll's life." Ronald Warwick in "Times Higher Education" criticises Cohen's interpretation of Carroll's relationship with his archdeacon father; his "insecure grasp of 19th-century ecclesiastical history"; his prose, which Warwick called cliched; and his choice to use Dodgson's first name, which Warwick said was not used even by Dodgson's most intimate male friends. Lewis Carroll: A Biography Lewis Carroll: A Biography is a 1995 biography of author Lewis Carroll by Morton N. Cohen, first published by