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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 ...
Gertrude Chataway (1866–1951) was the most important child-friend in the life of the author Lewis Carroll, after Alice Liddell. It was Gertrude who inspired his great nonsense mock-epic The Hunting of the Snark (1876), and the book is dedicated to her, and opens with a poem that uses her name as a double acrostic.
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.
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).
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).
The two Nigel Barton plays (8 [4] and 15 December 1965) [5] first brought him to widespread public attention and the slightly earlier Alice (13 October 1965), [6] about Lewis Carroll's relationship with Alice Liddell, developed themes to which Potter would return.
"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 ...
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 ...