Alice Liddell
Alice debuted in Carroll's first draft of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", "Alice's Adventures Under Ground". "Under Ground" originated from stories told to the Liddell sisters during an afternoon on 4 July 1862 while rowing on the Isis with his friend Robinson Duckworth, and on subsequent rowing trips. At the request of ten-year-old Alice Liddell, Carroll wrote down the stories as "Alice's Adventures Under Ground", which he completed in February 1864. "Under Ground" contains thirty-seven illustrations, twenty-seven of which Alice is depicted in. As his drawings of Alice bear little physical resemblance to Alice Liddell, whose given name she shares, it has been suggested that Alice's younger sister, Edith, might have been his model. He portrays his protagonist as wearing a tunic, in contrast to the tailored dresses that the Liddell sisters might have worn. His illustrations drew influence from the Pre-Raphaelite painters Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Arthur Hughes, whose painting "The Lady with the Lilacs" (1863) he visually alluded to in one drawing in "Under Ground". He gave the hand-written "Alice's Adventures Under Ground" to Alice Liddell in November 1864.