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Blue plaque № 51148

Guildford, Surrey, England, United Kingdom

Blue plaque № 51148

ALICE AND THE LOOKING GLASS The statue of Alice looking through the looking glass was made by Jean Argent in 1990 and presented to the town by Municipal General Insurance Ltd, to mark the link between Lewis Carroll and Guildford. Lewis Carroll was the pen-name of the Rev. Charles Lutwidge-Dodgson, a

n Oxford mathematics tutor. He acquired the lease of the Chestnuts, the house visible beyond the sloping brick wall, in 1868. The death of his father had left him, as eldest brother, the head of the f

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