After watching the newest film version of Alice In Wonderland I got to thinking of the real Alice without whom we would never have had this story. Alice Pleasance Liddell was born in 1852 and was the second daughter of Dean Liddell of Christ Church Oxford. It was to her and her two sisters that Lewis Carroll (real name Charles Dodgson, a professor of Mathematics at Oxford) told the original story on a boat trip up the Isis river. Alice begged Carroll to write the story down and it was eventually published. However the long friendship between Carroll and the Liddells was broken in 1863 under mysterious circumstances. Speculation has been that Carroll asked for permission to court either Alice or her elder sister Lorina but that Mrs. Liddell refused seeking higher class matches for her daughters or that Carroll was using his friendship with the Liddells to pay court to the girls’ governess. Whatever the reason the friendship was over. Alice later married Reginald Hargreaves and had three sons, two of whom were killed in World War I. Due to expenses in mainting her home she had to sell her original copy of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (as the story was first called). Alice died in 1934 and has forevermore been known as Alice In Wonderland.