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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.
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).
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
Alice Fairchild appears as an aging woman and a 14-year-old girl in Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's 1991 explicit graphic novel Lost Girls. In Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Alice is referred to as Miss A. L. Alice Liddell is one of the main characters in Andy Weir and Sarah Andersen's webcomic Cheshire Crossing.
The Lyman’s Red River War Foundation will be hosting events in Hemphill County to commemorate the 1874 battles, with other events also taking place. 150th year Red River War memorial events to ...
Benjamin, Melanie (2010), Alice I Have Been. ISBN 0385344139. A fictionalized account of the life of Alice Liddell Hargreaves, the inspiration for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Light, Descending (2014), is a biographical novel about John Ruskin by Octavia Randolph. [293]