Alice'S Shop

Alice's Shop is on St Aldate's, opposite Christ Church, Oxford, England. It was formerly frequented in the Victorian era by Alice Liddell, the inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, who used to buy sweets there. She lived at Christ Church with her father, Henry Liddell, who was Dean of the College and Cathedral. It is now a gift shop selling gifts, souvenirs and memorabilia, all based on Alice. The Old Sheep ShopThe shop was featured as the Old Sheep Shop in Lewis Carroll's 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass. One of the original John Tenniel illustrations shows the inside of the shop. It was used as a setting in Chapter 5 of the book (Wool and Water) and is owned by a sheep in the story : The shop is very characteristic of the dream-like qualities within the Looking-Glass world, in that every time Alice tries to focus on a specific object on its many shelves it changes shape and shifts to another shelf. At another point the shop itself vanishes and Alice finds herself outside with the sheep in a boat, having been given a pair of knitting needles which turn into oars in her hands. The sheep herself continues to make scornful, personal remarks and then finally, on appearing back in the shop, sells Alice an egg, which promptly turns into Humpty Dumpty.

Alice's Shop is on St Aldate's, opposite Christ Church, Oxford, England. It was formerly frequented in the Victorian era by Alice Liddell, the inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, who used to buy sweets there. She lived at Christ Church with her father, Henry Liddell, who was Dean of the College and Cathedral. It is now a gift shop selling gifts, souvenirs and memorabilia, all based on Alice. The Old Sheep ShopThe shop was featured as the Old Sheep Shop in Lewis Carroll's 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass. One of the original John Tenniel illustrations shows the inside of the shop. It was used as a setting in Chapter 5 of the book (Wool and Water) and is owned by a sheep in the story : The shop is very characteristic of the dream-like qualities within the Looking-Glass world, in that every time Alice tries to focus on a specific object on its many shelves it changes shape and shifts to another shelf. At another point the shop itself vanishes and Alice finds herself outside with the sheep in a boat, having been given a pair of knitting needles which turn into oars in her hands. The sheep herself continues to make scornful, personal remarks and then finally, on appearing back in the shop, sells Alice an egg, which promptly turns into Humpty Dumpty.