    alice pleasance liddellthis phonetic version of her name, with emphasis on first, rather than second syllable as sometimes mispronounced, is confirmed by the rhyme current in oxford at the time (attributed by some to dodgson himself but called by others a piece of "undergraduate doggerel"): "i am the dean and this is mrs liddell. she plays the first, and i the second fiddle. she is the broad; i am the high: and we are the university". (high street and broad street are two oxford streets, known colloquially as "the high" and "the broad".) (; 4 may 1852 â 16 november 1934) inspired the children's classic alice's adventures in wonderland by lewis carroll (charles lutwidge dodgson), when she asked him to tell her a story on a boating trip in oxford. the character of the fictional alice may not be based on her, howeverâit's a controversial question. relations between the liddell family and dodgson continue to provoke speculationâincluding, in late twentieth century biography, allegations that dodgson took an unhealthy interest in the child. liddell married the cricketer reginald hargreaves, and they had three sons. ==biography== alice liddell was the fourth child of henry liddell, dean of christ church, oxford, and his wife lorina hanna liddell (nÃ©e reeve). she had two older brothers, harry (born 1847) and arthur (born 1850, died of scarlet fever in 1853), and an older sister lorina (born 1849). she also had six younger siblings, including her sister edith (born 1854) to whom she was very close and her brother frederick (born 1865), who was a lawyer and senior civil servant. at the time of her birth, liddell's father was the headmaster of westminster school but was soon after appointed to the deanery of christ church, oxford. the liddell family moved to oxford in 1856. soon after this move, she met charles lutwidge dodgson, who encountered the family while he was photographing the cathedral on 25 april 1856. he became a close friend of the liddell family in subsequent years (see relationship with lewis carroll below). liddell was three years younger than lorina and two years older than edith, and the three sisters were constant childhood companions. she and her family regularly spent holidays at t
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