Alice Pleasance Liddell was Charles Dodgson’s favourite girlfriend. She was also his main inspiration for the stories "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass". Dodgson (the real name of Lewis Carroll) told her many stories, and the Wonderland story was one of the tales he invented to amuse her and her sisters. Alice sold her manuscript of "Alice's Adventures Under Ground". Sotheby’s suggested a reserve of only £4,000, but in the event it fetched £15,400 (an enormous amount of money for those days: it was then equivalent to £77,000) and it went to America. In 1932, when she was 80, Alice published her memoirs. She also went to New York because of the centenary of Dodgson’s birth and was made a Doctor in Literature by Columbia University. This was her last engagement on behalf of Wonderland, because at that age she got really exhausted of being ‘Alice in Wonderland’. Alice died on 15 November 1934.

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This Alice with the Pink Flamingo has been given a background of a vintage Ace of Hearts playing card alluding to the games played in "Alice in Wonderland". This bag is made of natural-colored canvas with brown handles. A fabulous bag for any Alice enthusiast.



Measurements:

bag: (roughly the size of a paper shopping bag) tall: 13.5" wide: 11.5" deep: 7.5"

pocket: tall: 11.5" wide: 7.25"

handles: 48", easily slings over shoulder