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Alice Pleasance Hargreaves (née Liddell, / ˈ l ɪ d əl /; [1] 4 May 1852 – 16 November 1934) was an English woman who, in her childhood, was an acquaintance and photography subject of Lewis Carroll.
Alice Liddell – a daughter of Henry Liddell, the Dean of Christ Church – is widely identified as the original inspiration for Alice in Wonderland, though Carroll always denied this. An avid puzzler, Carroll created the word ladder puzzle (which he then called "Doublets"), which he published in his weekly column for Vanity Fair magazine ...
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.
Love The Casual Umbrellas. Early 1900s. Image credits: Electrical-Aspect-13 ... #50 Alice Liddell (Of Alice In Wonderland Fame), At Age 18. ... At Age 18. Photo Taken By Lewis Carroll. Image ...
In the Shadow of the Dreamchild: A New Understanding of Lewis Carroll is a 1999 book by British author Karoline Leach that posited the concept of the "Carroll Myth": the idea that many of the most famous aspects of Lewis Carroll's biography, including his supposed adoration of Alice Liddell, are more legend than fact.
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]
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).
The observance was named after Alice Liddell, a then 12-year-old girl who Alice in Wonderland author Lewis Carroll met and debatably fell in love with on April 25, 1856. [4] [1] [5] The date then started to be celebrated by pedophile advocates.