We’re All Mad Here!

Psychedelics, drugs, growing up… Alice and its many meanings.

Isabel Abril
The Curiouser Reader
8 min readApr 11, 2022

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Scene from the 1951 movie Alice in Wonderland. Alice lies on the ground next to the daisies, before encountering the White Rabbit.
Alice in Wonderland, Disney, 1951. Wikimedia commons. Public domain.

When Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carrol) made up the stories in Alice in Wonderland to entertain the Liddell girls during a summer boat trip on the River Thames in Oxford in 1862, he couldn’t have imagined the literary revolution he was about to unleash. Over 150 years and several other books later, movies, games…

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Isabel Abril
The Curiouser Reader

Librarian and freelance writer 🇬🇧 🇪🇸 Diagnosed ADHD. Intersectional feminist, vegan & ally. Away with the fairies but rooted in facts. She/her @Bryn_abril