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pounds 6,000 price tag for Carroll's drawing of Birmingham girl.(News)

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20080623
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Byline: By Dick Barton

An ink drawing of a Birmingham schoolgirl by Alice In Wonderland author Lewis Carroll is expected to fetch up to pounds 6,000 at an auction tomorrow

Edith Blakemore - who lived at Augustus Road, Edgbaston and who later attended Edgbaston High School For Girls - was only fiveyears old when she met Carroll on holiday in Eastbourne in the summer of 1877.

The picture, done in Carroll's trademark violet ink, shows Edith in a beach costume holding a bucket and spade and leaning against the wheel of a ...

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