The oddities and eccentricities of Victorian Oxford with its mix of the old and the new, where Carroll would attend school at Christ Church and live out the rest of his days as a mathematics professor, provide a proper context for the creation of dream worlds. Some of the sights in the future Wonderland, for instance, pale in comparison to the habits of the real-life William Buckland, the “celebrated zoophagist,” who was convinced that it was his God-given obligation to “munch his way through the entire animal kingdom” (61). ...in large part, Douglas-Fairhurst’s success with The Story of Alice lies in his ability to put Carroll in the context of his own age. ...as Douglas-Fairhurst records, after a conflict with a certain Mrs. Owen whose seventeen-year-old daughter he kissed and then suggested to her mother that he might take nude pictures of her, circumstances became so difficult for him that he stopped taking photographs altogether.