Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles. Traduit de l'Anglais par Henri Bué...

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Inscribed by the Dodgson on the half-title: 'Beatrice Cecilia Harington, from the Author'. The recipient was the eldest daughter of Richard Harington, Principal of Brasenose College and his second wife, Mary; her half-brother (also Richard) was a Christ Church contemporary and friend of Dodgson, who had translated a poem by the latter into Latin for the Daniel Press 'Garland of Rachel'. Beatrice, like her sister (Alice Margaret), was among Dodgson's child-sitters; she was seventeen years of age at the time of this translation (which followed the German in the same year as the earliest translations of Carroll's chef d'oeuvre), and later became the first Head of St. Margaret's House, Bethnal Green.