‘Alice in Wonderland’ celebrates 150th ‘un-birthday’

As Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland turns 150, a new exhibition in the US traces the history and evolution of a true modern classic.

When it was published in Great Britain in 1865, during the height of the Victorian era, nobody really knew what impact Lewis Carroll’s daring book would have on children’s literature – least of all its author, who had originally written it as a gift for a 7-year-old girl named Alice and her two sisters.