Alice Liddell
English woman, basis of the character in "Alice in Wonderland" (1852-1934) · United Kingdom · On the map · Died at 82
Alice Pleasance Hargreaves was an English woman who, in her childhood, was an acquaintance and photographic 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.
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Alice Liddell (right) with sisters c.1859 (photo by Lewis Carroll)
Alice Liddell at the age of 20, photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron
Alice Hargreaves in 1932, at the age of 80
The grave of Alice Hargreaves in the graveyard of the church of St Michael and All Angels, Lyndhurst, Hampshire
Edith Liddell (William Blake Richmond, c. 1864)
The fictional character was named after her. (Illustration by Lewis Carroll)
Liddell dressed in her best outfit. Photo by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1858).About this person
She shared her name with "Alice", the story's protagonist, but scholars disagree about the extent to which the character was based upon her.