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- As historian Martin Gardner wrote in 1960’s The Annotated Alice, “A long procession of charming little girls (we know today that they were charming from their photographs) skipped through Carroll's life, but none ever took the place of his first love, Alice Liddell.
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Liddell is the main character of Melanie Benjamin's novel Alice I Have Been, a fictional account of Alice's life from childhood through old age, focusing on her relationship with Lewis Carroll and the impact that Alice's Adventures Under Ground had on her.
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Alice was born on 4 May 1852 and was the 4th child and second daughter of the Dean from the Christ Church College in Oxford, Henry George Liddell, and Lorina Liddell. ‘Liddell’ is pronounced to rhyme with ‘fiddle’. We know this thanks to a couplet, which was composed in Carroll’s day by the students at Oxford. It went as followed: (Gardner100) The ...
On 25th February 1856, Henry Liddell, the new Dean, moved into the Deanery at Christ Church. At this time Dodgson was sub-librarian and the window of his room overlooked the Deanery garden, where Alice and her sisters played. Dodgson came in contact with the Liddell’s via the Dean’s niece, Fredrika Liddell, whom he had sketched. He met the Liddell ...
Alice was 20 years old when Prince Leopold (the youngest son of Queen Victoria) arrived at Christ Church, as an undergraduate from 1872 until 1876. It is rumoured that there was a romance, but Alice was a ‘commoner’ and a marriage was not allowed. In 1880 Alice married Reginald Hargreaves. Dodgson was not present at her wedding, but did sent her, t...
In 1928, Alice sold her manuscript of “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground”, because she needed the money to pay death duties. Sotheby’s suggested a reserve of only £4,000, but in the event it fetched £15,400 (an enormous amount of money for those days: it was then equivalent to £77,000) and it went to America.
In 1932, when she was 80, Alice published her memoirs. She also went to New York because of the centenary of Dodgson’s birth and was made a Doctor in Literature by Columbia University. This was her last engagement on behalf of Wonderland, because at that age she got really exhausted of being ‘Alice in Wonderland’. Alice died on 15 November 1934.
Dec 3, 2021 · In 1880, Alice married amateur cricket player Reginald Hargreaves. She lived the cultured life of a country lady in Lyndhurst, England. She had three sons, two of whom were killed in World War I. To help pay taxes after the death of her husband, Alice put the original Under Ground manuscript up for auction in 1928.
Jun 5, 2018 · Lewis Carroll’s inspiration for Alice in Wonderland, Alice Liddell, was a 10-year-old girl and a friend of the author. But the real story of their relationship isn’t so much a fun, fantasy romp for children as a horror story full of dark, adult depravity.
May 21, 2009 · They fell in love, but a marriage was not to be. The Queen insisted that he must marry a princess, and he did so, but only after Alice had married Reginald Hargreaves, who had also been a...
Alice, along with her sisters Edith and Lorina, first met Lewis Carroll on April 25, 1856, as he and a friend were setting up to photograph Christ Church Cathedral from the garden of the Dean’s residence. Over the next few years, Carroll would become a close friend of the Liddell family.
Jan 26, 2010 · As the origin myth goes, one golden summer afternoon, Dodgson and 10-year-old Alice, along with some companions, went for a boat ride and he spun out the tale of Alice in Wonderland, which...
