Wikipedia Trails: From Lewis Carroll to John Sotheby

For this week's reading, I focused on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.  As I started the reading, I remembered hearing that Lewis Carroll was a mathematician, as well as a writer.  So, I decided to begin a chase down the Wikipedia rabbit hole. After reading the article on Carroll, I learned that he befriended the Liddell family shortly before writing his famous stories about Alice and her times in Wonderland.  Some argue that Alice Liddell was his inspiration for the stories, but others disagree.  I decided check out the article on this Alice to learn more about her.  In this article, I learned that Alice found herself basically broke after her husband's death and resorted to selling the manuscript copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It sold for much more than Sotheby's had appraised it for.  I had heard the name Sotheby's many times before, but never really knew much about it.  In the article about Sotheby's, I learned that it is a famous broker for art.  From here, I became interested in John Sotheby, who was the man who started the auction house back in the 1700s in London, England.

Image: Alice Liddell at age 7, picture taken by Lewis Carroll