The girl who inspired Alice in Wonderland,alongside images of monarchs and statesmen, form fraction of major exhibition on British portraitureHer pose is excruciatingly awkward”, or said Simon Schama,describing the remarkable photograph of an 18-year-old Alice Liddell taken by Lewis Carroll. But was she upset at the man behind the camera or at the stop of wonderland?The image of the girl who inspired Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has gone on display at the National Portrait Gallery, along with other photographs taken by Charles Dodgson – Lewis Carroll was Dodgson’s literary pseudonym – between 1858 and 1870.
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Source: theguardian.com