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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. [30] The Real Alice in Wonderland, a children's book by Cathy Rubin, writing as C. M ...
Hargreaves married Alice Liddell, the girl who inspired Lewis Carroll's fantasy stories. The couple were married in 1880 at Westminster Abbey, with Sir John Stainer playing the organ at the ceremony. [7] The couple's wedding received much press coverage. [8] The couple had three sons, two of whom would be killed in action during the First World ...
Articles relating to Alice Liddell (1852-1934) and her depictions. She was an acquaintance of Lewis Carroll, and the stories he told her were later developed into the novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
A BBC documentary from 2015, The Secret World of Lewis Carroll, [93] critically examined Dodgson's relationship with Alice Liddell and her sisters. It explored the possibility that Dodgson's rift with the Liddell family (and his temporary suspension from the college) might have been caused by improper relations with their children, including Alice.
Two roads in Ascot, Liddell Way and Carroll Crescent honour the relationship between Henry Liddell and Lewis Carroll. Liddell as caricatured by 'Ape' in Vanity Fair (1875) Liddell was an Oxford "character" in later years. He figures in contemporary undergraduate doggerel: [6] I am the Dean, this is Mrs Liddell. She plays first, I, second fiddle.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was conceived on 4 July 1862, when Lewis Carroll and Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed up the river Isis with the three young daughters of Carroll's friend Henry Liddell: [8] [9] Lorina Charlotte (aged 13; "Prima" in the book's prefatory verse); Alice Pleasance (aged 10; "Secunda" in the verse); and Edith Mary (aged 8; "Tertia" in the verse).
Pages in category "Lewis Carroll" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. ... Lewis Carroll: A Biography; Alice Liddell; Lock Wood Island ...
"All in the golden afternoon" is the preface poem in Lewis Carroll's 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.The introductory poem recalls the afternoon that he improvised the story about Alice in Wonderland while on a boat trip from Oxford to Godstow, for the benefit of the three Liddell sisters: Lorina Charlotte (the flashing "Prima"), Alice Pleasance (the hoping "Secunda"), and Edith ...