Alice Liddell

Uh, is where, according to the Wisenberger companion, um, is where this white statue of the, the white rabbit stands.

Uh, scholars have presented no evidence that Lewis Carroll ever visited the resort, but Alice Liddell's parents often took her there, uh, and it remains the resort's claim to Alice fame.

Um, Carroll, the Oxford mathematician, met Alice in July 1862, took her as his inspiration, and published Alice's Adventures Under Ground in 1865.

There is a, um, uh, there's like a, a long-standing...

After the list of gods reaches its limit, how would we name exoplanets? I suggest naming them after characters of classical literature.

For example, Ahab, the Mad Hatter, Tom Sawyer, Alice Liddell, um, et cetera."

I, I love that, and there's no shortage of those-

No, there isn't

They were great.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865, by Lewis Carroll.

The book began in 1862 as entertainment for 10-year-old Alice Liddell and her two sisters as they boated on the river Thames with mathematician Charles Dodgson and his clergyman friend.

It proved such a hit that Alice insisted Dodgson transcribe it, which he duly did.

meticulously hand-written it contains not a single mistake and is filled with his own detailed illustrations inscribed a christmas gift to a dear child in memory of a summer's day it carries the pen name which he'd previously published some poetry lewis carroll alice was the daughter of the dean of christ church the oxford college where dodgson taught he was an avid practitioner of the new-fangled art of photography and their friendship evolved through his efforts to capture her and her sister on film The Liddell girls weren't the only children Dodgson befriended, and while there is no proof of anything explicitly untoward in his relationship with them, it's hard not to view them as suspect.

A grown man who sent his young playmates letters full of puns and puzzles also requested locks of their hair and asked them to sit on his lap and pose for photographs.

over the years some critics have argued that alice's adventures in wonderland contained hidden sexual symbolism they point to moments like alice's neck suddenly stretching to an unusual length interpreting it as a phallic image Others have suggested that the scene where she fans herself before shrinking and later finds herself surrounded by water up to her chin after becoming only a few inches tall could be read as having sexual undertones.

Not everyone agrees with those interpretations, though.

If you were in Gouverneur Hospital in Lower Manhattan, you could pretend you were flying around New York City because of a government-funded mural that adorned the hospital's pediatric ward.

It was called Alice of Wonderland Visiting New York.

It was created by immigrant, an immigrant named Abram Champagne, and it was funding from the Works Progress Administration, the WPA.

His mural imagines Alice and friends doing typical New York City things like riding the subway, fishing New York Harbor, visiting Coney Island.

This vivid and massive artwork brought color and whimsy into the hospital ward until the hospital was decommissioned in the 1960s and the mural fell into disrepair.

But a pair of art conservators managed to access the crumbling building and rescue the mu- the mural.

It has been restored.

It is now on display at the Museum of the City of New York.

Mm-hmm.

And among his subjects was a young girl named Alice Liddell.

The-

The Alice.

And just to keep them entertained, he began spinning this wildly imaginative story, and the narrative twists, they were just improvised on the spot, right, deeply tailored to the things that the girls found amusing.

Yeah, he was just riffing, trying to make them laugh.

But Alice Liddell was relentless.

She didn't just listen to the story and say, "Thanks." She demanded that he write it down for her.

Oh.

Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Vice Chancellor of Oxford, for whom Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland.

Huh.

It had been suggested he consider marrying her, though he never did.