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  Science Fair Projects - Alice Liddell
Alice Pleasance Liddell (May 4, 1852 - November 16, 1934) was the inspiration for the heroine of the children's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
Alice Liddell was a daughter of Henry Liddell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and his wife Lorina Hanna, née Reeve.
Alice Liddell and "Alice", the character in the book, are clearly not identical, but it is fair to say that Alice Liddell was the inspiration for certain characteristics of "Alice" the character.
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  Alice Liddell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Alice Pleasance Liddell (May 4, 1852 - November 16, 1934) was the inspiration for the heroine of the children's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
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).
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 Alice Liddell
Alice Pleasance Liddell (May 4, 1852 - November 16, 1934) was a daughter of Henry Liddell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and his wife Lorina Hanna, née Reeve.
Alice married Reginald Hargreaves on September 15, 1880 in Westminster Abbey.
It became the possession of Eldridge R. Johnson, and was displayed at Columbia University on the centenial of Carroll's birth (Alice was present, aged 80, and it was on this visit to America that she met Peter Llewellyn-Davies, one of the brothers who were the inspiration for J.
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 Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Alice Liddell
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 was clearly the favorite throughout these years, and she became the heroine of his tales, whilst her sisters Lorina and Edith played supporting roles.
Alice Liddell and "Alice", the character in the book, are clearly not identical, but it is fair to say that Alice Liddell was the inspiration for certain characteristics of "Alice" the character.
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 Alice Liddell at AllExperts
Alice Pleasance Liddell (May 4, 1852 – November 15 or November 16, 1934) was the inspiration for children's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
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.
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 Teach Me! - discover more about Alice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Alice Pleasance Liddell was born at 19 Dean's Yard, Westminster, on Wednesday 4th May 1852, the fourth child of Henry George and Lorina Hannah Liddell.
Alice grew up into an accomplished young lady, and her education was completed by a `grand tour' of Europe in 1872 with her sisters, Lorina and Edith.
Alice confessed to Caryl in a letter that she was "tired of being Alice in Wonderland.
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 Henry Liddell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Very Rev. Henry George Liddell (February 6, 1811 – January 18, 1898) was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and co-author (with Robert Scott) of the monumental work A Greek-English Lexicon, which is still in use to this day.
Their younger son was a senior Reverend Henry George Liddell, Rector of Easington (born before 1791 – March 9, 1872).
Alice Pleasance Liddell (May 4, 1852 November 16, 1934).
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Alice grew up primarily in the company of the two sisters nearest to her in age: Lorina, who was three years older, and Edith, who was two years younger.
After the rift between Dodgson and the Liddells, Alice and her sisters pursued a similar relationship with John Ruskin, as detailed in Ruskin's autobiography Praeterita; however, that biography may not be entirely factual.
Liddell and Carroll are used as protagonists in Bryan Talbot's 2007 graphic novel Alice in Sunderland to relay the history and myths of the area.
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 Alice Liddell - Definition, explanation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
After the rift between Dodgson and the Liddells, Alice and her sisters pursued a similar relationship with John Ruskin, as detailed in Ruskin's autobiography Praeterita.
Alice Liddell and "Alice", the character in the book, are clearly not identical.
One thing for sure, Alice Liddell did not inspire the illustrations of "Alice" in the published books: there is a myth that Dodgson sent Tenniel a photo of another child-friend of his, Mary Hilton Badcock, suggesting to use her as a model (Gardner, 1970, chap.
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 The Real Alice- Her Gift
Alice Pleasance Liddell, for whom the famous Wonderland story was first told told and then written as a personal book.
Alice was the daughter of Dean Henry and Mrs Lorina Liddell at the college of Christ Church, Oxford England.
Alice was 4 when she and Dodgson first met at the Deanery.
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 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.
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 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a work of children's literature by the British mathematician and author Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.
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.
Alice makes an appearance (in passing) in Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen; more significantly, she is a main character in Moore's Lost Girls, which imagines her having erotic adventures.
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 Stella & Rose's Books Secondhand Children's and Illustrated Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
She was born Alice Pleasance Liddell in Oxford in 1852, the middle daughter of Dean Liddell (Dr Henry Liddell, former head of Westminster School, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford).
Later Alice was invited to America with her sister Rhoda and her son Caryl to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Lewis Carroll's birth.
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.
www.stellabooks.com /articles/real_alice.htm   (698 words)

  
 Articles - Alice Liddell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dodgson finally gave Alice the finished book Alice's Adventures under Ground, which he had printed by hand and illustrated himself, as a Christmas present on November 26, 1864, almost two and a half years after she had asked him to write it down.
Alice married Reginald Hargreaves on September 15, 1880, at the age of 28 in Westminster Abbey.
It became the possession of Eldridge R. Johnson, and was displayed at Columbia University on the centennial of Carroll's birth (Alice was present, aged 80, and it was on this visit to America that she met Peter Llewelyn-Davies, one of the brothers who were the inspiration for J.
www.cateringa.com /articles/Alice_Liddell   (1787 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Jillian Mary Walkinshaw and others
She married Geoffrey Andrew Liddell, son of Lt.-Col. Geoffrey William Liddell and Mary Sophia Liddell, on 9 October 1958.
He was the son of Sir Frederick Francis Liddell and Mabel Alice Magniac.
She is the daughter of Sir Frederick Francis Liddell and Mabel Alice Magniac.
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 Alice Liddell - the original Alice
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).
At the Mad Hatters Tea Part both Alice and her sisters are woven into the story, that is in addition to the presence of Alice as herself, when the Dormouse tries to tell the tale of the three little sisters.
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 Through The Looking-Glass
His inspiration for the titular character came from Alice Pleasance Liddell, the youngest daughter of the college's dean.
Alice's mother, for un-specified reasons, chose to eliminate Dodgson's contact with her children.
Dodgson's novel Alice Through The Looking-Glass (1871), symbolically represents Alice Liddell's growth from child to adult, from innocence to maturity, and is considered by some to be a final goodbye from Dodgson to his child-friend.
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 Amazon.ca: Books: Still She Haunts Me   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
When Dodgson ruins a photograph of his beloved Alice by mistakenly rubbing out the features of her face, the resulting blur seems to mirror the novel: despite great care, what is meant to be a clear psychological portrait renders its subject fuzzy and distorted.
The mathematics lecturer met Alice and her family (her father was his dean at Oxford) when the girl was only four years old, and remained close to the Liddells until Alice was eleven, when events caused the tensions which had been simmering for seven years to boil over.
Liddell freezes Dodgson out completely when she discovers the nude photos of Alice that had been hidden in her daughter's bedroom.
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 Gift Sales Pitch
Most of the original "Alice's" published in the 1800's were "read to tatters" which is why they have become so rare and valuable today.
Breathe the sigh of satisfaction as she herself relives every experience, beginning with the White Rabbit, that the historical Alice Pleasance Liddell experienced on that magical Christmas of 1964.
And should you invest in a "Personalized Alice" for a non-reading two to six year old (2 to 6 years), you can't wait till that wonderful day she looks at you and says "Mommy, I want to learn to read, so I can read my own Adventure, all by myself".
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 ipedia.com: Alice Liddell Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Alice Pleasance Liddell was the inspiration for the heroine of the children's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
On July 4, 1862, in a rowboat travelling on the river Thames from Oxford to Godstow for a picnic outing, Alice asked Charles Lutwidge Dodgson to entertain her and her sisters Edith and Lorina with a story.
It was soon after this move that Alice first met, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who came across the dean’s family while he was photographing the cathedral.
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 BBC News | ARTS | 'Alice in Wonderland' archive for sale
The archive was collated by Alice Pleasance (nee Liddell), who at seven years old was befriended by Lewis Carroll.
The collection going under the hammer was preserved by Alice up until her death in 1934, and then by her family.
Alice's wedding ring, a pair of silver brushes and copies of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are also included in the sale.
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Alice's first meeting with Charles Dodgson took place on 25th April 1856, when he was helping his friend, Reginald Southey, to take a photograph of the cathedral.
I feel that spending time with Alice and the Liddell children inspired him to write a story through the imagination of a child.
The Croft church has a sedilia, a seat for the clergy built into the wall, at one end of which is a carved stone face of a cat or lion.
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 Wonderland : Alice Liddell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Alice Pleasance Liddell was born on the 4th of May, 1852 in Westminster, the fourth child of Henry George and Lorina Hannah Liddell.
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.
In the end, Alice did not marry until 1880, at the age of 28, to Reginald Hargreaves.
www.greatestjournal.com /community/rabbit_hole/6659.html   (603 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)

  
 Lecture Notes
We began to explore Alice's character (as a prim, Victorian 7-year-old who can also be rude, spoiled, and unfeeling) and to ask whether she is believable as a character or whether that is even an appropriate question to be asking of this text.
Alice Liddell is in her late teens when Lewis Carroll writes Through the Looking Glass; in Through the Looking Glass, she is still seven and a half.
Alice is not always priggish, or concerned with rules or manners, or a symbol or a type of anything or anyone.
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 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.
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