Alice, as a little beggar girl
Art Neuendorffer
April 25 St. Mark's Day. Thought to be the oldest of 4 Gospels.
http://www.ntin.net/McDaniel/0425.htm
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April 25, 387, [EASTER] Bishop AMBROSE baptizes Augustine
April 25, 1214, Louis IX of France (1226-70) born.
April 25, 1284, Edward II of England (1307-27) born.
April 25, 1530, 1st official summary of the Lutheran faith:
read publicly at the Diet of Worms.
April 25, 1599, Oliver Cromwell born.
April 25, 1616, Shakspeare buried.
April 25, 1707, Gulliver observes SUNRISE MERCURY TRANSIT
at Fort St. George, India.
April 25, 1776, Gauss' parents marry.
April 25, 1792, Guillotine was used for the 1st time
- on Nicholas Pelletier, a highwayman.
April 25, 1792, John Keble born. Founder of the Oxford Movement in 1833.
April 25, 1800, William Cowper, English poet, dies.
His dementia made him believed he was damned.
April 25, 1816, Lord Byron left England. He was heavily in debt, & his
personal life was the scandal of the day (his wife had separated from
him and had tried to have him declared insane, and London gossip mills
were working overtime with stories of his incestuous relationship with
Augusta Leigh. A contemporary newspaper cartoon shows Byron in a boat
with his arms around two loose women and his hands holding booze
bottles, bidding good-bye to England.
April 25, 1843, Princess Alice, the 2nd daughter of Queen Victoria,
born. She was married to the heir to the Grand Duchy of Hesse,
Louis, and had five children that grew to adulthood.
The princesses of Hesse, Victoria, Elizabeth & Irene, were renowned
for their beauty & called "the Three Graces". A much younger fourth
sister was the future doomed Empress Alexandra of Russia.
Victoria, the oldest sister, was grandmother to Prince Philip.
A tireless social reformer & follower of Florence Nightingale
Alice was the first of Queen Victoria's children to die.
April 25, 1846, American soldiers skirmish with Mexican troops
north of the Río Grande near Brownsville,
will lead to a declaration of war against Mexico.
April 25, 1859, Suez Canal begun.
April 25, 1874, Guglielmo Marconi born in Bologna, Italy.
April 25, 1885, The Trollope-Plorn Trial
April 25, 1898, Congress declares war on Spain
On same day William SIDNEY PORTER enters a Federal prison for
embezzlement as a bank teller in Austin, Texas. Dr. Gerald Langford
believes PORTER took the rap for his father-in-law, an officer of the
bank. PORTER was arrested and was being transported back to Austin
when he jumped the west-bound train in Columbus, Texas, and caught an
east-bound one. From Houston he fled to Honduras. He later came home
when his wife became ill. In prison he worked in the prison pharmacy
and began writing under the pen-name *O. HENRY*.
April 25, 1938, Peter Farey born
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<<Originally read as a lecture at the University of Toronto
back in 1982, this book is a rich tapestry depicting the strange,
wonderful, recondite, unexpected weaving of literature and the
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[A]lice [Ple]asance Liddell (1852-1934)
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April 25, 1856, Charles Luttwedge Dodgson meets
[A]lice [Ple]asance Liddell in the garden
http://www.gilberthetherwick.com/alice.php
<<It was soon after the Liddell family moved to Oxford from Westminster that
Charles Dodgeson first saw Alice. He went to the Deanery to help his friend
Reginald Southey take a photograph of Christ Church Cathedral, and Alice was
playing in the garden with her sisters. The children, particularly Alice,
became Dodgeson's favourite photographic subjects and many photographs exist
that were taken at that time.
http://www.pancakeparlour.com/Wonderland/Alice_Liddell/From8to80/Drawing/dra
wing.html
Alice wasn't the little girl with long, fair hair as Tenniel depicted
her. She had dark hair as shown in the photograph that Charles Dodgeson cut
into an oval and attached to the last page of his handwritten manuscript.
Some time later it was discovered that this photograph was pasted over a
drawing of Alice by the author. Click on the picture on the right to see the
original drawing of Alice by Carroll.
http://www.library.ubc.ca/spcoll/alice/alice01.jpg
Alice, as a little beggar girl.
{Photographed in the late 1850s by Dodgeson, )
Although Alice was obviously Dodgeson's favourite, her sisters, Lorina and
Edith, were included in the storytelling and on the boat trips when they
would all plead for more of the story. Edith died in 1876 aged 22, just
before she was to be married. This had a profound effect on Alice and
although it was rumoured that Prince Leopold, Queen Victoria's son and
possibly Dodgson himself, wished to marry her, it was said that because of
the shock of Edith's death, Alice waited until 1880 before marrying Reginald
Hargreaves. After Alice grew up there was little contact between her and
Dodgson. An apparent coolness developed between Dodgeson and the Dean and
Mrs Liddell, who perhaps disapproved of his possible interest in marrying
Alice. She was just seventeen when he photographed her for the last time.
As Alice grew older and the Alice books became more popular she became an
object of curiosity... the real Alice. Usually this embarrassed her. Alice
always kept the manuscript of her adventures in Wonderland until her husband
died in 1928. Money was needed to pay death duties. The family considered
the items they could sell to pay the required amount and finally decided on
the Alice manuscript, the most valuable item they possessed. Sotherby's
suggested a reserve price of £4,000. It fetched £15,400, an enormous amount
in those days and went to America.
During the auction Alice was in the limelight again and the press
photographed her with headlines about the 'real Alice'... a poor, childless,
widowed lady who had to let her country house to make ends meet.
http://www.pancakeparlour.com/Wonderland/Alice_Liddell/From8to80/from8to80.h
tml
In 1932, when she was eighty, Alice undertook one last engagement on
behalf of Wonderland. She was invited to New York on the centenary of
Dodgeson's birth to attend the celabrations and to receive an Honorary
Degree from Columbia University. There were press receptions, police escorts
through New York and a suite at the Waldorf Astoria. After the visit to New
York there were many letters, requests for autographs and requests for
personal appearances, but by this time Alice was becoming exausted by the
demands. She wrote to her son "But, oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in
Wonderland. Do I sound ungrateful? It is-only I do get tired". Alice Liddell
died not long after at the age of 82, in 1934, at Westerham in Kent.
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Art Neuendorffer