This was Lewis Carroll's inspiration as Alice in his novel ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
This was Lewis Carroll's inspiration as Alice in his novel ALICE IN WONDERLAND. Remembering Alice Liddell, who inspired Lewis Carroll to write Alice in Wonderland Alice Liddell, who is believed to have inspired Alice in Wonderland, always related to the character. In Depression-era America, a prominent feature in many newspapers in April-May 1932 was not about the dire economic situation, but local engagements of an 80-year-old British woman, who happened to be a most famous literary figure. However, Alice Pleasance Hargreaves was no author herself, but the inspiration for what eventually became Alice in Wonderland . It was as a 10-year-old that Alice, whose 165th birth anniversary is on Thursday, requested a family friend to tell her a story as he and his companion rowed her and her sisters down an Oxford river one summer afternoon in 1862. The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) obliged with the adventures of a girl called Alice who ...