Alice Liddell | |
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 Liddell, aged 7, photographed by Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) in 1860 | |
| Born | Alice Pleasance Liddell 4 May 1852 Westminster, London, England |
| Died | 16 November 1934 (aged 82) Westerham, Kent, England |
| Other names | Alice Hargreaves |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | Henry Liddell Lorina Reeve |
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Alice Pleasance Hargreaves (née Liddell, /ˈlɪdəl/;[1] 4 May 1852 – 16 November 1934) was an English woman who, in her childhood, was an acquaintance and photography subject of Lewis Carroll. One of the stories he told her during a boating trip became the classic 1865 children's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. She shared her name with "Alice", the story's protagonist, but scholars disagree about the extent to which the character was based upon her.[2][3]
- ^ This phonetic version of her name, with emphasis on first, rather than second syllable as sometimes mispronounced, is confirmed by the rhyme current in Oxford at the time (attributed by some to Dodgson himself but called by others a piece of "undergraduate doggerel"): "I am the Dean and this is Mrs Liddell. She plays the first, and I the second fiddle." Quoted in Naiditch, P. G. (1993). "On Pronouncing the Names of Certain British Classical Scholars". The Classical Journal. 89 (1): 55–59. JSTOR 3297619.
- ^ Joyce, James (1974). "Lolita in Humbertland". Studies in the Novel. 6 (3). Johns Hopkins University Press: 342. JSTOR 29531672.
- ^ Susina, Jan (2009). The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children's Literature. Routledge. p. 7.