INSPIRATION

Alice Liddell

1852 - 1934

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Alice Pleasance Hargreaves (née Liddell, ; 4 May 1852 – 16 November 1934) was an English woman who, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alice Liddell is the 6th most popular inspiration (down from 4th in 2019), the 828th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 633rd in 2019) and the most popular British Inspiration.

Alice Liddell was the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church College in Oxford, and she was the inspiration for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

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Among inspirations, Alice Liddell ranks 6 out of 10. Before her are Vlad the Impaler, Mahsa Amini, Eugène François Vidocq, Jack LaLanne, and Johann Georg Faust. After her are Joseph Bell, George Floyd, and Andrew Wakefield.

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Among people born in 1852, Alice Liddell ranks 19. Before her are Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Joseph Joffre, Augusta, Lady Gregory, William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and Ferdinand von Lindemann. After her are Constantin Fehrenbach, Christian Krohg, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, H. H. Asquith, Hipólito Yrigoyen, and Tewfik Pasha. Among people deceased in 1934, Alice Liddell ranks 25. Before her are Gustav Holst, Tōgō Heihachirō, Augusto César Sandino, Charley Patton, Louis Barthou, and Marinus van der Lubbe. After her are Edmond James de Rothschild, Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Siegbert Tarrasch, Jean Vigo, William Morris Davis, and Mykhailo Hrushevsky.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alice Liddell ranks 828 out of 8,785. Before her are James May (1963), Fatboy Slim (1963), Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence (1388), Hertha Ayrton (1854), Colin Maclaurin (1698), and Asma al-Assad (1975). After her are Nicko McBrain (1952), Charles Scott Sherrington (1952), Louis Wain (1860), Ian McEwan (1948), Denis Law (1940), and Oliver Heaviside (1850).

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Among INSPIRATIONS In United Kingdom

Among inspirations born in United Kingdom, Alice Liddell ranks 1. After her are Joseph Bell (1837), and Andrew Wakefield (1957).

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