Alice Pleasance Liddell

This 1858 photo, titled The Beggar Maid was photographed by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 – 1898), a brilliant mathematician, professor, logician and photographer. The girl was Alice Liddell, the daughter of a well-to-do family. Charles was highly imaginative and when he visited the Liddell family their three daughters would ask him to invent all kinds of stories. So, he dressed them up, took photographs of them and invented a very special story for the middle girl, Alice. Translating his name into Latin and then back into English, the name Lewis Carroll emerged, and thus he published under this new name. His little beggar girl became famous (as did he) as the first girl featured as the main character in a children’s book. The books were "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1864) and "Through the Looking Glass and what Alice found there" (written 1871).