Fashioning Alice: The Career of Lewis Carroll's Icon, 1860-1901

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150 years after Alices Adventures in Wonderland was first published, Lewis Carrolls eponymous heroine has become one of the most familiar figures in the cultural landscape. The enduringly iconic figure of the Victorian child, Alice has inspired countless fashion designers, illustrators and stylists. The Alice Look has been embraced across the world, by young and old alike, and by both the feted and the forgotten. Fashioning Alice is the first book to chart the emergence of Alice as a style icon. Kiera Vaclavik traces the evolution of Alices visual identity in the nineteenth century and explores the myriad ways in which she was dressed on the page, on the stage, and in the home. The book also draws on historical sources to examine amateur performance and play not just in the UK but in the USA, Japan and Australia. Illustrated throughout, Fashioning Alice is a ground-breaking exploration of Alices visual career that offers a compelling case study of the intersections between fashion and fiction.

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For those looking to follow Alice's career as a style icon in the twenty-first century, Fashioning Alice provides background information to the phenomenal interest her character continues to attract in the fashion world ... Vaclavik has succeeded in bringing children's illustrated literature further into realms of fashion history. * The Journal of Dress History *

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Kiera Vaclavik is Professor of Children's Literature and Childhood Culture at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. She is the author of Uncharted Depths: Descent Narratives in English and French Children's Literature (2010) and in 2015 she devised and curated an exhibition on "The Alice Look" for the V&A Museum of Childhood in London.