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| | Liddell, Alice Pleasance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | According to the author of a book published in 2004 (The Looking Glass Wars, by Frank Beddor), Alice Liddell, the little girl to whom Lewis Carroll first told the stories of Alice Through the Looking Glass and Alice in Wonderland, and the inspiration for the character Alice, was an adoptee. |
 | | He claims to have met someone who had a copy of her original birth certificate which proves the assertion. |
 | | The same source, a London bookseller, also claimed that Wonderland is a real place, that Alice first told the story to Carroll, not the other way around, and that Carroll stole the idea, rewrote it, and passed it off as his own. |
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