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A Woman to Know: Alice Liddell Pleasance Hargreaves

But oh my dear, I am getting tired of being Alice in Wonderland. — Alice Liddell Pleasance Hargreaves

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Sep 22, 2020
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But oh my dear, I am getting tired of being Alice in Wonderland. — Alice Liddell Pleasance Hargreaves

(image via The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Alice grew up in her own kind of Wonderland. As the daughter of the dean of Christ Church College in Oxford, Alice explored the legendary university as her playground.

Family friend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (you’…

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