Rare Recording of Lewis Carroll Centennial Speech Given by the Real Alice in Wonderland - Alice Pleasance Hargreaves

    NEW YORK, NY, October 20, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- When you hear the voice of the Real Alice In Wonderland - Alice Pleasance Liddell Hargreaves - extending her thanks to President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University at the spectacular centenary celebrations held on her behalf in the old Columbia gymnasium on May 4, 1932, you will gasp. As for those scholars who know the history of how this came to pass.....most of them reach for a box of Kleenex.

It was the early 1930's. The Great Depression raged on. During a magical celebration of Lewis Carroll's 100th birthday, Americans found hope in an 80 year old English lady who traveled across the Atlantic to New York to share the magic of Alice in Wonderland and be honored by Columbia University.

"Famous literary heroines do not always come up to expectations, but Mrs. Hargreaves who celebrated her eightieth birthday yesterday and made her little speech at Columbia is all that Alice's millions of devoted admirers would wish her to be. Through the years she has kept the unassuming modesty and charm that made her Alice and that now makes her a guest with whom the country is delighted..." -- concluded the World Telegram, May 5, 1932.

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