Almost Alice

 

In Tim Burton's 2010 movie 'Alice in Wonderland' Absolem the caterpillar states that Alice is 'Almost Alice' - and he was right.
 

 

As you will most likely know, the movie was based on Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and, in my humble opinion, does a fine job of bringing the novel to life (even though it changes quite a few bits).

Lewis Carroll (real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) probably based his Alice on the real Alice - Alice Pleasance Liddell.

Alice Liddell was born in 1852 and in 1856 her family moved to Oxford where she first met Dodgson. In 1862, whilst on a boat trip with her two sisters, Edith and Lorina and Dodgson, Alice asked him to tell them a story; this story became 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground' and, subsequently 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'.
 

Dodgson maintained a relationship with the Liddell family until 1863. Various sources suggest that Dodgson may have been obsessed with Alice or her sister Lorina and this forced the break with the family (Wikipedia has loads more on this).

 
Alice later toured Europe with her sisters Edith and Lorina. Later, it was rumoured that she may have been romantically connected with Prince Leopold. In 1880 Alice Liddell married Reginald Hargreaves in Westminster Abbey and they went on to have three sons (two of whom died in the First World War).

 
Reginald died in 1926 and in 1934 Alice followed him. She was cremated and her ashes buried in the graveyard of the church of St Michael and All Angels Lyndhurst, Hampshire.

 

 

 

If you're a regular reader of this blog you'll have noticed a distinct lack of blogging in 2016 - hopefully in 2017 I'll return to regular monthly posting (and hopefully the migraines will stay away...)

 

 

Catch You Later!

 

 

 



 
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Alice-in-Wonderland.net
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Liddell
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alice_Liddell_grave_in_Lyndhurst1.jpg
https://nhetic.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/mon-avis-sur-alice-in-wonderland/
http://www.playbuzz.com/shaythewolf10/which-tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-character-are-you
www.express.co.uk 
https://uk.pinterest.com/cuzinelmer/alice-liddell-hargreaves/