The character of Alice from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland is wonderfully iconic. When Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, most literature of the time depicted children in a very mannered, unrealistic, and subservient way. At the time, it was very radical to have a child heroine who knew her own mind, would talk back to crazy authority figures, and was capable of addressing problems cleverly as they arose in her adventures. Because of the fantastical...
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