SIGNATURE OF ‘ALICE’ LIDDELL (Alice Pleasance Hargreaves, neé Liddell, 1852-1934, the little girl that Lewis Carroll used as the model for ‘Alice in Wonderland’)

Fine signature on card 3½” X 2½”, no place, dated in another hand 16th April

Alice Liddell, in her childhood, was an acquaintance and photography subject of Lewis Carroll. One of the stories he told her during a boating trip became the classic 1865 children's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. She shared her name with "Alice", the story's protagonist, but scholars disagree about the extent to which the character was based upon her.
When Alice was a young woman, she set out on a Grand Tour of Europe with her sisters Lorina and Edith. One story has it that she became a romantic interest of Prince Leopold, the youngest son of Queen Victoria, during the four years he spent at Christ Church, but the evidence for this is sparse. It is true that years later, Leopold named his first child Alice and acted as godfather to Alice's second son Leopold. Alice married Reginald Hargreaves, a cricketer, on 15th September 1880 in Westminster Abbey, at the age of 28.

Item Date:  1928

Stock No:  42683      £375

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