Photo: Lewis Carroll / Getty Images
Here's a fun trivia for you for when you go see Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland movie: did you know that there actually was a real alice? Her name was Alice Pleasance Lidell.
From The Real Alice in Wonderland gallery over at LIFE:
Before Alice ever set foot in Wonderland, there was Alice Liddell, the 10-year-old friend of an eccentric, stuttering lecturer in mathematics who would later find fame as a writer, under the name Lewis Carroll. (Pictured: A photo by Carroll of a 6-year-old Alice Liddell as "the Beggar-Maid" in 1858.)
What to make of it is the big debate.
Some have said that he was a pedophile (possibly a celibate one), and that 6 pages torn from his diary were to conceal this (one unsubstantiated theory: that he had written about proposing to Alice, then 11).
Others say that this is a misunderstanding, that the nudes would have been perfectly normal for a well-know amateur photographer at the time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverworld
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Lewis-Carrolls-Shifting-Reputation.html
Of course, it is fiction, but I found it fairly fascinating and informative. Some portion of the book dealt with the very photograph shown here.