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  Alice Liddell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alice Liddell was a daughter of Henry Liddell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and his wife Lorina Hanna, née Reeve.
Alice was the fourth child, having two older brothers, Harry (born 1847) and Arthur (born 1850, died of scarlet fever in 1853), and an older sister, Lorina (born 1849).
Alice married Reginald Hargreaves on September 15, 1880, at the age of 28 in Westminster Abbey.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alice_Liddell   (2058 words)

  
 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a work of children's literature by the British mathematician and author, Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, written under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.
These are the Liddell sisters: Elsie is L.C. (Lorina Charlotte), Tillie is Edith (her family nickname is Matilda), and Lacie is an anagram of Alice.
Alice and the rest of Wonderland continue to inspire or influence many other works of art to this day—sometimes indirectly; via the Disney movie, for example.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland   (2896 words)

  
 About Alice Liddell
She was born on 4 May 1852 and was the 3rd child and second daughter of the Dean from the Christ Church College in Oxford, Henry George Liddell ('Liddell' is pronounced to rhyme with 'fiddle').
Alice was 20 years old when Prince Leopold (the youngest son of Queen Victoria) arrived at Christ Church, as an undergraduate from 1872 until 1876.
Liddell 'urging her to send the children over to be photographed', something he very often did.
www.alice-in-wonderland.net /alice1e.html   (750 words)

  
 Alice Pleasance Liddell — A Short Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Alice Pleasance Liddell was born on the 4
Alice was clearly the favorite throughout these years, and she became the heroine of his tales, whilst his sisters Lorina and Edith played supporting roles.
Many believe that Alice’s grief over the loss of her sister caused the relationship with Leopold to cool down, whilst others speculate that Leopold was dissuaded from pursuing a suit with a commoner by his mother.
alice.puellula.com /Alice.html   (577 words)

  
 Alice Liddell's Character Creation
My Alice is a so-called normal sixteen year old girl, who like many other people that age feels like no one can understand her or what's going on in her head.
In the eyes of my mind, Alice is a Hollow One, struggling to understand the weird reality around her and her own powers.
At first look Alice may seem like a deviant who lives only to break the rules imposed by society, she is in fact desperately searching for someone that would understand her.
www.ogmiosproject.org /chars/nursery/alice_step.html   (673 words)

  
 Alice Liddell
Alice started exploring these events, trying to understand what was going on with her.
Alice may seem to be a social deviant, breaking rules just because someone went to the trouble of making them, but that would be a superficial observation only.
Alice's magic is mostly unconscious, or invoked by semi-occult rituals and superstitions.
www.ogmiosproject.org /chars/nursery/alice_stats.html   (731 words)

  
 Alice Liddell - the original Alice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Alice Pleasance Liddell (1852-1934) was the middle of three daughters of Dean Liddell (Dr Henry Liddell, former head of Westminster School, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford).
Alice was a distant relative of Queen Elisabeth II, her great-grandfather was brother of the ninth Earl of Strathmore, from whom Elisabeth II is directly descended.
The eldest of the Liddell sisters was Lorina Charlotte, initials L C, Alice the middle (try anagram), and Edith the youngest was affectionately known to her sisters as Tillie.
www.heureka.clara.net /art/alice.htm   (736 words)

  
 Alice - the TV play by Dennis Potter.
Apparently the producers saw her pictured as Alice Liddell on the cover of the Radio Times (right) and cast her on the spot.
Rosalie Cruthley is likewise excellent as Mrs Liddell as she portrays growing concern over the attention which Dodgson pays to Alice.
Deborah Watling makes a charming Alice and there's one sequence where she backs away in fear from the Turtle and the Gryphon as they advance on her, which is almost a precursor to all the monster confrontations she was later to experience as Doctor Who's companion, Victoria.
www.alice-in-wonderland.fsnet.co.uk /film_tv_watling_01.htm   (564 words)

  
 Alice: A Lewis Carroll Centenary Exhibition
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the work for which Lewis Carroll is best remembered, grew out of a river outing by Carroll, his friend Robinson Duckworth, and the three young daughters of Dean Liddell - Lorina, Alice and Edith.
The "India Alice" (as Weaver called it) is inscribed on the front pastedown "Metropolitan Convalescent Institution Children’s Branch, August, 1866"; it also bears the inscribed name "Alice Cousins" on the frontispiece.
Weaver theorized that Alice Cousins might well have been the patient at the children’s hospital who in late 1866 or shortly thereafter took this Alice with her upon her discharge.
www.hrc.utexas.edu /exhibitions/online/carroll/lc7.html   (528 words)

  
 Alice In Wonderland in stories, films, television, theatre and multimedia.
On the 4th of July 1862, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson told the story of "Alices' Adventures Underground" to Alice Liddell and her two sisters on a boating trip down the river
He based the central character on Alice herself, and wove into the story many of the places and things which they'd seen on their outings in Oxford.
Alice asked him to write it down, and the story became "Alices' Adventures Underground", then "Alices' Adventures in Wonderland".
www.alice-in-wonderland.fsnet.co.uk   (266 words)

  
 Books | Alice Liddell's archive up for auction
An archive of papers, photographs, books and letters relating to Alice Liddell, for whom Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland, is expected to fetch more than £2m at a Sotheby's auction this summer.
The archive was maintained by her and by her descendants, and includes her wedding ring, the only Lewis Carroll letter to her still in private hands, and a hand-coloured version of his famous photograph of her as a bare-shouldered beggar maid.
The sale includes an album of his photographs - of Alice and her sisters and his Oxford contemporaries - that is regarded as the best to come on the market, and is estimated at up to £800,000.
books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4157425-99819,00.html   (306 words)

  
 [UBC Special Collections - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]
Alice Liddell is best known as the little girl who inspired the Alice stories.
In the summer of 1862, a boating expedition consisting of the Liddell children, Charles Dodgson, and Robinson Duckworth marked the day when the tale of a little girl exploring a rabbit warren was born.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Alice's Adventures Through the Looking Glass and What She Found There contain the well-known illustrations of Sir John Tenniel.
www.library.ubc.ca /spcoll/alice   (883 words)

  
 BEDTIME-STORY CLASSICS-Alice In Wonderland BACKGROUND
Instead, she was originally a winsome, dark haired child, whose likeness had been patterned after ten year old Alice Liddell, the child of a church colleague, for whom the Alice stories had been originally created.
Alice and her sisters were enchanted with the tale, and Alice later pleaded with Carroll to commit the story to paper, which he did, but he did not complete it until until the following February.
Alice, the Cheshire cat, and the rest of Carroll's marvelous characters were popularized again in the 20th century by the masters of animation at the Disney studios.
the-office.com /bedtime-story/alice-background.htm   (2734 words)

  
 Still She Haunts Me: A Novel of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Lewis Carroll's relationship to Alice Liddell, the child who inspired him to write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, will always be a source of fascination to those who love his works.
And it was Alice, the one who captured his heart, who begged him to write his story down.
But the Liddells wanted their daughters to marry up the social ladder, and while Carroll was a respected lecturer at the university, he was several rungs below them.
www.kendix.com /blog/2004/000112.php   (702 words)

  
 Alice Liddell as a Beggar-girl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It was for her entertainment that he whiled away the summer of 1862 elaborating one of the most extraordinary fables in the language.
In this, one of the Carroll's most memorable images, these effects are emphasized by the starkness of the figure in shallow 'Pre-Raphaelite' space, and by what seems a suspicion lurking in Alice's eyes that she is the victim of an obscure adult jest.
Alice was later to be the model for some of Mrs.
www.libfl.ru /pre-raph/44.html   (170 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Other Alice : The Story of Alice Liddell and Alice in Wonderland: Books: Cristina Bjork,Inga-Karin ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The author of Linnea in Monet's Garden (1987) explores the connection between Alice Liddell, the book Alice, and its creator in an inviting array of anecdotes, biographical details, descriptions of the Oxford setting, photos (many by Dodgson, still renowned as a photographer of children), period illustrations, and Eriksson's precisely detailed art.
Liddell would also, periodically and inexplicably, try to terminate a friendship that would then be reinstated with full honor).
The meticulous art work, showing Alice Liddell and her sisters and Charles Dodgeson [Carroll] and many Oxford settings is superb.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/9129622425?v=glance   (1267 words)

  
 ALICE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Footage reveals "Alice" to be far more accessible than the harsh and brittle "The Black Rider", with a collection of superb songs exquisitely performed by the Thalia players.
The principal characters are Alice (who is both the fictional character and her real-life model, Alice Liddell) and the author, Charles L. Dodgson, both of whom appear in various guises throughout the production.
One of them was Alice Liddell, for whom he invented the story of Alice in Wonderland.
www.keeslau.com /TomWaitsSupplement/Theatre/Alice/introduction.htm   (2383 words)

  
 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A girl named Alice is bored while on a picnic with her sister.
These are the Liddell (sounds like "little") sisters: Elsie is L.C. (Lorina Charlotte), Tillie is Edith (her family nickname is Matilda), and Lacie is an anagram of Alice.
There are many things that suggest drugs: Alice ingests potions, wafers, and mushrooms that alter her size or consciousness, not to mention the fact that her perspective changes constantly and she loses track of time, space, and even her own identity.
alicesadventuresinwonderland.quickseek.com   (2682 words)

  
 Charles Dodgson - photographer
The second is for Alice and the first for the others.
Alice Constance Westmacott, daughter of the sculptor Richard Westmacott
Most of the Alice (and her sisters) images are scanned from Lewis Carroll with a text by Graham Ovenden (Masters of photography series).
www.people.virginia.edu /~bhs2u/carroll/dodgson.html   (221 words)

  
 Lewis Carroll
Alice meets a cast of strange creatures including the Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire Cat, the March Hare and the Mad Hatter.
The rapid changes in height Alice experiences, the mood changes, not being sure of her own mind, or who she was, could be seen as the changes experienced in puberty.
And indeed, in later life, as Alice Liddell grew up and changed, she and Lewis Carroll drifted apart, and towards the end of her life, Alice Liddell resented being the Alice.
www.heureka.clara.net /art/carroll.htm   (1914 words)

  
 Julia Margaret CAMERON - Alethea (Alice Liddell)
As a child, Alice Liddell (1852–1934), was frequently photographed by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson).
She is the young 'Alice' for whom he wrote his books Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.
Cameron photographed Alice when she was in her early twenties as Alethea, in this profile study.
www.ngv.vic.gov.au /cameron/975637phfa.shtml   (102 words)

  
 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.
famous.adoption.com /famous/liddell-alice-pleasance.html   (250 words)

  
 The Annotated Alice
Tenniel's pictures of Alice are not pictures of Alice Liddell, who had dark hair cut short with straight bangs across her forehead.
The Liddell sisters were fond of the family's two tabby cats, Dinah and Villikens, named after a popular song, "Villikens and His Dinah." Dinah and her two kittens, Kitty and Snowdrop, reappear in the first chapter of the second Alice book, and later, in Alice's dream, as the Red and White Queens.
Alice's one major romance, before she married Reginald Hargreaves, was with England's Prince Leopold.
www.wwnorton.com /catalog/fall99/annotatednotes2.htm   (1449 words)

  
 Lewis Carroll's Least-aspected Neptune,Uranus:Biography:Astrology:Horoscope
Alice in Wonderland, as the first book is usually called, has been translated into more than 30 languages, including Arabic and Chinese.
Alice in Wonderland tells about the adventures of a little girl in a make-believe world under the ground.
Alice in Wonderland became so well known that the names of some of its characters are part of everyday speech.
www.dominantstar.com /1b_lcarroll.htm   (606 words)

  
 A biography of Lewis Carroll by Derek Hudson
Yet many of the passages and prose situations in the Alice books could not have been realized without the help of an instinctive and insistent vein of poetry, associated perhaps with that 'very rebellious mind' which a graphologist has detected in his adolescent hand writing.
Although his letters, like the Alice books, can only be fully appreciated by adults, they are an additional proof that he wrote his nonsense primarily to give pleasure to children.
She was Alice Liddell, one of the daughters of Dr H. Liddell, the formidable Dean of Christ Church.
www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/hudsond/carroll/chap3.htm   (1450 words)

  
 The Duck and the Dodo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Alice's comment in Alice's Adventures under Ground, which was deleted in later versions of the story and does not appear in Wonderland adds to this idea.
Liddell./ She plays the first, and I the second fiddle." Elsie, or L. C., stands for Lorina Charlotte; Tillie is short for Matilda, the family nickname for Edith; and Lacie is an anagram for Alice (Carroll The Annotated Alice 100).
He was, after all, fascinated by mathematics and logical games, and the names "Lewis Carroll" and "Alice Liddell" do appear suspiciously similar; they both have the same number of letters in the first and last names and the order of consonants and vowels and postition of doubled letters in the last names is identical.
home.earthlink.net /~lfdean/carroll/dodo.html   (588 words)

  
 Alice Day — April 25   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, in his years-long devotion to Alice Liddell, gave us an excellent example of girllove in its purest form.
His love for Alice was selfless and unconditional, and continued long after they fell out of contact and she became a woman.
For this reason, many girllovers celebrate Alice Day, using it as a day to rejoice in the gift of girllove and affirm the ideal so aptly typified by this special relationship.
alice.puellula.com /AliceDay.html   (135 words)

  
 Fictionwise eBooks: Still She Haunts Me: A Novel of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell by Katie Roiphe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
But the exact nature of his relationship with Alice Liddell, daughter of the dean of his college, and the young girl who was his muse and subject, remains mysterious.
Dodgson met Alice in 1856, when she was almost four years old.
Here, too, is a brilliantly realized cast of characters that surround them: Lorina Liddell, Alice's mother, who loves her daughter even as she envies her youth; Edith Liddell, Alice's resentful little sister; and James Hunt, Dodgson's speech therapist, an island of sanity in Dodgson's increasingly chaotic world.
www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook7422.htm   (937 words)

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