alice's adventures in wonderland by lewis carroll

Later life Īlice Hargreaves in 1932, at the age of 80Īlice Liddell married Reginald Hargreaves, also a cricketer, on 15 September 1880, at the age of 28 in Westminster Abbey. Prince Leopold served as a pall-bearer at her funeral on 30 June 1876. Edith died on 26 June 1876, possibly of measles or peritonitis (accounts differ), shortly before she was to be married to Aubrey Harcourt, a cricket player. A recent biographer of Leopold suggests it is far more likely that Alice's sister Edith was the true recipient of Leopold's attention.

However, it is possible Alice was named in honour of Leopold's deceased elder sister instead, the Grand Duchess of Hesse. It is true that years later, Leopold named his first child Alice, and acted as godfather to Alice's second son Leopold. One story has it that she became a romantic interest of Prince Leopold, the youngest son of Queen Victoria, during the four years he spent at Christ Church, but the evidence for this is sparse.

When Alice Liddell was a young woman, she set out on a Grand Tour of Europe with Lorina and Edith. She had two older brothers, Harry (born 1847) and Arthur (1850–53), an older sister Lorina (born 1849), and six younger siblings, including her sister Edith (born 1854), with whom she was very close with, and her brother Frederick (born 1865).Īlice Liddell at the age of 20, photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron Early life Īlice Liddell was the fourth of the ten children of Henry Liddell, ecclesiastical dean of Christ Church, Oxford, one of the editors of A Greek-English Lexicon, and his wife Lorina Hanna Liddell ( née Reeve).

She shared her name with ' Alice', the story's heroine, but scholars disagree about the extent to which the character was based upon her. One of the stories he told her during a boating trip became the children's classic 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alice Pleasance Hargreaves ( née Liddell, / ˈ l ɪ d əl/ – 16 November 1934) was an English woman who, in her childhood, was an acquaintance and photography subject of Lewis Carroll.

Alice's adventures in wonderland by lewis carroll