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Alice Liddell

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The Resume

    (May 4, 1852-November 15, 1934)
    Born in London, United Kingdom
    Her family moved to Oxford when her father was appointed dean of Christ Church College (1856)
    Met Lewis Carroll (a lecturer at Christ Church) at age four
    Inspired the character Alice in 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865) and 'Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There' (1871)
    Subject of several well known photographs by Carroll

Why she might be annoying:

    Her family looked down on Carroll's middle class background.
    Her close childhood friendship with Carroll is highly controversial.
    Many, including Vladimir Nabokov, found Carroll's photographs of her unsettling and suggestive.
    The attention she received from Carroll made her younger sister Edith jealous.
    She sold the manuscript of 'Alice in Wonderland' (a gift from Carroll) in 1928.
    She named one of her sons 'Caryl' but denied he was named after Lewis Carroll.

Why she might not be annoying:

    There is no hard evidence that Carroll ever behaved inappropriately with her.
    As an adult, she posed for another famous photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron.
    Her beloved sister Edith died at age 22.
    Prince Leopold, a son of Queen Victoria, may have been in love with her.
    Two of her sons were killed during World War I.
    She was made a Doctor of Literature by Columbia University on the centennial of Carroll's birth (1932).

Credit: Georgina


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 14 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 19 Votes: 5.26% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 11 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 4 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 13 Votes: 38.46% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 13 Votes: 23.08% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 19 Votes: 36.84% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 15 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 29 Votes: 41.38% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 25 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 37 Votes: 40.54% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 126 Votes: 44.44% Annoying