A bit of eclectic for your day. The inspiration for Alice in Wonderland! Interesting that the story's image of Alice is a matter of dispute. Obviously, it is not the illustration of the original Alice. Lewis Carroll sent a photograph of another child friend, Mary Hilton Badcock to the book's illustrator, but whether or not the artist actually used it is cloudy. A letter Carroll wrote suggests the illustrator did not. Either way Alice Liddell had a life of adventure and helped to establish stories we know and love.  Read more about her here.

Alice Liddell, age 7, photographed by Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) in 1860

Liddell dressed up as a beggar-maid, photographed by Lewis Carroll (1858)

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