![]() ![]() ![]() The pages from Dodgson's diary that may have explained the rift have disappeared. Then, suddenly, when Alice was eleven, the Liddell family shut him out, and his relationship with Alice ended abruptly. ![]() Eventually he would capture her in his photographs, and transform the stories he told her into the luminous Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass. Dodgson met Alice in 1856, when she was almost four years old. But the exact nature of his relationship with Alice Liddell, daughter of the dean of his college, and the young girl who was his muse and subject, remains mysterious. Under the pen name Lewis Carroll he wrote two stunning classics that liberated children's literature from the constraints of Victorian moralism. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a shy Oxford mathematician, reverend, and pioneering photographer. ![]()
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