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Stubborn, precocious and curious, the character of Alice was based on a real little girl named Alice Liddell, with a brunette bob and short fringe. Alice Liddell was no ordinary muse: she nagged, bossed and bullied Dodgson into writing down her story.
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 · However, Alice and her older and younger sisters, Lorina and Edith, were only little girls and had plenty of time to play and to escape from the watchful eye of their governess, Miss Prickett.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures.
- Lewis Carroll
- 1865
Jan 12, 2024 · Alice Pleasance Liddell (1852-1934) is best known as the little girl who inspired the Alice stories. Shortly after Henry Liddell, Dean of Christ Church College, and his family arrived at Oxford University, Dodgson made their acquaintance.
Jul 5, 2012 · 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...
Jul 7, 2017 · While Lewis Carroll's most beloved book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, is renowned for its surreal subject matter and “curiouser and curiouser” plot, its protagonist is actually based on a real-life little girl. Alice Liddell, the daughter of a family friend, inspired Carroll to write the celebrated novel in 1865.
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