This site is about Alice Pleasance Liddell (1852-1934), later married as Alice Hargreaves. Alice was one of the daughters of the then Dean of Christchurch College Oxford. At the college she met Charles Dodgson (the real name of Lewis Carroll). He told to her and her sisters the first version of the story of Alice in Wonderland. Later she met and married Reginald Hargreaves and came to live in the Hargeaves Family home of Cuffnells in Lyndhurst.
The site contains:
- The script of the play “Alice in Lyndhurst” written by Nick Mellersh in 2009. This is the story of the life of Alice.
- A fictional "autobiography" of Alice written as a precursor to writing the play. A quick and easy read if you want to know about the life of Alice.
- Timelines created when writing the play and useful to anyone researching Alice's life.
- A discussion on the controversies surrounding Charles Dodgson. The accusations of drug taking and paedophilia that are laid against him, - falsely in the opinion of the author this site..
- Videos of the first performance on YouTube
Pictures: Top Alice as an old woman created for Rosenbach's study. Presumably the Rosenbach who bought the manuscript of “Alice Underground ” the very first version of the story..
Below: Photo of Alice as a child taken by Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)