A long procession of charming little girls (we know today that they were charming from their photographs) skipped through Carroll’s life, but none ever took the place of his first love, Alice Liddell. “I have had some scores of child-friends since your time,” he wrote to her after her marriage, “but they have been quite a different thing.”
For Lewis Carroll’s birthday today, meet Alice Liddell, the real girl who inspired Wonderland.
What better way to celebrate today’s 150th birthday of the London Underground than with Alice in Wonderland as a tube map?
If you’re a fellow lover of all things Alice in Wonderland, you’ll find yourself mesmerized by photographer Cade Martin’s Wonderland project for the Washington Ballet – a series of ethereal photographs of dancers inspired by the Lewis Carroll classic.
150 years ago today, on July 4, 1862, a young mathematician by the name of Charles Dodgson, better-known as Lewis Carroll, took a boat trip with a friend’s three little sisters, including the real-life Alice Liddell, who inspired a story he told on the boat – the story that later become Alice in Wonderland.
