What is Alice Liddell?
[[File:Liddell, Alice P. - 'The Queen of May' (Lewis Carroll, 05 or 06.1860).jpg|thumb|Liddell, 1859]] [[File:Alice Liddell - Beggar Girl.jpg|thumb|right|Alice Liddell as a beggar-girl, 1858]] [[File:Alice Liddell in 1870.jpeg|thumb|right|Alice Liddell in 1870, also by Dodson]] '''Alice Pleasance Liddell-Hargreaves''' (4 May 1852 – 16 November 1934) was a child friend of [[Lewis Carroll|Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]]. She inspired his two books ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' (1865) and ''[[Through the Looking-Glass]]'' (1871).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/oxford/content/articles/2009/05/21/alice_feature.shtml |title=Local Lives - Alice Liddell |publisher=BBC |accessdate=2013-10-12}}</ref> Dodgson wrote the two books using the [[pen name]], [[Lewis Carroll]]. ==Life== Alice was born in [[Westminster]], [[London]], one of ten children of Henry Liddell and his wife Lorina. Her father was Dean of Christ Church college in [[Oxford]]. Dodgson was a mathematics [[wikt:don|don]], a [[Fellow]] at the college. He was 24 years old when he met Alice on 25 April 1856. He was an expert photographer, and took a number of photographs of her. Alice and her sisters Edith and Lorina took little trips with Dodgson. They had boating parties and other outdoor adventures. Dodgson told stories on these trips. He started the story of Alice in Wonderland during a boat trip on the [[Thames]] on 4 July 1862. In 1864, his trips with the girls were brought to an end by their mother. It is not known why. Alice grew up a refined young woman. She married Reginald Hargreaves in [[Westminster Abbey]] in 1880. The couple lived in a country house in [[Hampshire]]. Alice was a very capable person. She managed many servants. She arranged balls and parties. She had three sons. Two were killed in [[World War I]]. Her husband never overcame this loss. He died in 1926. Mrs. Hargreaves sold some of her ''Alice'' [[memorabilia]] through [[Sotheby's]]. This sale included the original ''Alice'' manuscript. It had been the gift of Dodgso