Alice Liddell was born May 4, 1852, the daughter of Dean Henry Liddell of Christ Church Oxford in England.

Also at Christ Church was a mathematics instructor, Charles Dodgson. Dodgson wrote logic and mathematics books and was fond of photography.

It was in his role as photographer that Dodgson met Alice and her sisters, Edith and Lorina. Dodgson would visit the Liddells and photograph the children.

When he visited, he would tell the children stories that he made up. He was especially fond of young Alice. In July 1862, when Alice was 10, he took the girls on a boating trip on the Thames River and passed the time telling a story about Alice's adventures underground.

Little Alice loved the story so much that she asked him to write it down for her to keep. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland was later published under Dodgson's pseudonym, Lewis Carroll.

Alice was not the only real person to appear in Carroll's tales. The Duck was his friend Robinson Duckworth, who came along on many of the afternoon outings. Sisters Lorina and Edith Liddell were immortalized as the Lory and the Eaglet, and the Dodo was drawn from Dodgson himself.