Alice Liddell | Alice in Wonderland
The sprawling estate went from one Morrell to the next for generations. It became home to Emily Alicia Morrell (1854-1938). Among her friends were Alice Pleasance Liddell (1852-1934) of the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ fame and her siblings. Alice was one of ten children of Henry Liddell, dean of Christ Church, frequented by the Morrell family. Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll was the sub-librarian. The window of his room overlooked the garden where the children played. He was always befriending little girls everywhere: on trains, beaches and in the houses of friends. He first met the Dean’s niece, Fredrika Liddell, whom he sketched and then photographed. Two months later he met 4-year-old Alice while taking photos Christ Church Cathedral. On June 3rd he photographed her and sisters.
Headington Hill Hall was the large house known for extravagant parties. Among those who attended were the Dean with his family as well as Dodgson.
Dodgson had been introduced to photography the summer before he met Alice. Within a few months he became passionate about his hobby. Many of the photographs he took were of little girls, primarily nudes. In his diaries he wrote about his preference for the prepubescent bodies of girls.
MacMillan, a company owned by Robert Maxwell, would one day publish new editions of Lewis Carrol’s books.
When Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion was raided for sex crimes against minors they found a photograph of a little girl roughly the same age Alice had been when she first met Dobson. The photograph was on the wall right outside Epstein’s bedroom. It was the first thing he saw when he walked out of his bedroom and every morning and the last photograph he saw when going to bed. It is a photo of a 4 or 5-year-old girl pushing down her pants to expose her bottom.
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