The Day He Met Her Was “Significant”
On April 25, 1856, Charles Dodgson met Alice Liddell and her sister while they were playing in a garden. He was 24 at the time and wrote in his diary that the date was quite special. He was busy photographing the cathedral, and the girls were drawn to him because they hadn’t seen a camerabefore.
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Dodgson wrote that the family later asked him to take pictures of them. He had clothes and toys in his studio to entertain the girls, and he was nearly as famous for his photography as he was for his writing. But the more interesting part of his life was his infatuation with Alice.