Today, May 4th, Alice Pleasance Liddell (1852 - 1934) completes 161 years old.

Alice was the “real Alice in Wonderland”. This little girl, as a child, inspired the brilliant mind of Mr. Charles Dodgson (you may know him as Lewis Carroll) to write Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, one of children’s literature’s most precious and iconic books of all time.

Happy birthday, dreamchild.

Your fastest way to Wonderland…

(Photograph of Alice Liddell in 1858)

rriverthompson:

Lewis Carroll, Alice liddell as a beggar girl, 1859

thevictorianlady:

Alice Liddell photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron

1872

Alice, Lorina, and Edith Liddell sitting in the Deanery Garden (presumably taken by Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll).

Inspiration (from the Latin inspirare, meaning “to breathe into”) refers to an unconscious burst of creativity in a literary, musical, or other artistic endeavour.

still-she-haunts-me-phantomwise:

funeral-wreaths:

Julia Margaret Cameron, Alice Liddell as St. Agnes (detail), 1872

Thank you so much! I haven’t seen this before!

Neither have I! 

This is beautiful.