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2 of 52 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
FROM THE GARDENS WHERE WE FEEL SECURE,
By THE FAMILY CAT (Blackpool England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Alternative Alices: Visions and Revisions of Lewis Carroll's Alice Books (Paperback)
Virginia Astley.Cult singer songwriter from the early 80s whose family lived in Moulsford Oxfordshire.The village close to Alice Country which inspired her first album,the perfect soundtrack to Alice in Wonderland.An instrumental album with added SFX such as birdsong and church bells. Titles like A Summer Long Since Past and Summer Of Their Dreams.Virginia Astley is,in fact,a reincarnation of Alice and not just because that's her middle name. Her late father was born in Warrington and moved to Grappenhall in the late 40s which is the next village to Daresbury. Since that first album Virginia was to become known as a singer and many of her songs have uncanny similarities with Wonderland and even the real life Alice. In "Tree Top Club" comes the line "I bought you sweets and comics from the grocery shop" which is paralleled in the early life of Alice Liddell. So many others:I Live In Dreams,Nothing Is What It Seems,Over The Edge Of The World. And another parallel in the fact that Virginia Astley was morally sound,and a reminder that "Alice was the most sensible person in a land of freaks" against a description of Virginia Astley as "unaffected by operating in a business not known for many normal people". Virginia long ago found her own turf and stayed in it So this is another Alternate Alice |
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Alternative Alices: Visions and Revisions of Lewis Carroll's Alice Books by Carolyn Sigler (Paperback - October 9, 1997)
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