Biography of alice liddell

Alice Pleasance Liddell-Hargreaves (4 May – 16 November ) was a child friend of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. She inspired his two books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland () and Through the Looking-Glass ().^[1] Dodgson wrote the two books using the pen name, Lewis Carroll.

Life

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Alice was born in Westminster, London, one of ten children of Henry Liddell and his wife Lorina. Her father was Dean of Christ Church college in Oxford.

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Dodgson was a mathematics don, a Fellow at the college. He was 24 years old when he met Alice on 25 April He was an expert photographer, and took a number of photographs of her.

Alice and her sisters Edith and Lorina took little trips with Dodgson.

They had boating parties and other outdoor adventures.

Alice liddell cause of death

Dodgson told stories on these trips. He started the story of Alice in Wonderland during a boat trip on the Thames on 4 July In , his trips with the girls were brought to an end by their mother. It