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 cl
Liddell, aged 7, photographed by Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) in 1860
Alice Liddell (right) with sisters c.1859 (photo by Lewis Carroll)
Alice Liddell at the age of 20, photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron
The grave of Alice Hargreaves in the graveyard of the church of St Michael and All Angels, Lyndhurst, Hampshire
Henry George Liddell was dean of Christ Church, Oxford, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, headmaster of Westminster School, author of A History of Rome, and co-author of the monumental work A Gree
Alice Liddell
…protagonist, but scholars disagree about the extent to which the character was based upon her. Alice Liddell was the fourth of the ten children of Henry Liddell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, one of the editors of A Greek-English Lexicon, and his wife Lorina Hanna Liddell (née Reeve). She had two older brothers…
Henry Liddell, in an 1858 portrait by George Richmond
Henry Liddell, in an 1891 portrait by Sir Hubert von Herkomer
Liddell as caricatured by 'Ape' in Vanity Fair (1875)
Three of Liddell's children (l to r) Lorina, Edith and Alice, photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron in 1872. The central figure is Charles Hay Cameron as King Lear.