![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Historian Martin Gardner writes in The Annotated Alice ( public library), originally published in 1960 and revised in a definite edition in 1999:Ī long procession of charming little girls (we know today that they were charming from their photographs) skipped through Carroll’s life, but none ever took the place of his first love, Alice Liddell. Alice Liddell, age 7, photographed by Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) in 1860 Alice Liddell (right) with her sisters circa 1859, photographed by Lewis Carroll Alice Liddell, age 7, photographed by Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) in 1860 So taken was Alice Liddell with the story that she asked Dodgson to write it down for her, which he did when he soon sent her a manuscript under the title of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground. Entrusted with entertaining the young ladies, Dodgson fancied a story about a whimsical world full of fantastical characters, and named his protagonist Alice. The party consisted of Carroll, his friend Reverend Robinson Duckworth, and the three little sisters of Carroll’s good friend Harry Liddell - Edith (age 8), Alice (age 10), and Lorina (age 13). On July 4, 1862, a young mathematician by the name of Charles Dodgson, better-known as Lewis Carroll (January 27, 1832–January 14, 1898), boarded a boat with a small group, setting out from Oxford to the nearby town of Godstow, where the group was to have tea on the river bank. ![]()
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