How was Alice Liddell connected to Lewis Carroll’s Alice stories?

Alice Liddell was the daughter of the dean of Christ Church at Oxford and a close friend of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.12

Her connection to his famous works began during a boat trip on July 4, 1862, when Dodgson told her and her siblings a fairy tale that he later wrote out for her as Alice’s Adventures Underground. Alice was so captivated by the story that she urged him to write it down, which served as the primary inspiration for his classic, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.13

Dodgson eventually expanded the manuscript for publication, incorporating additional stories he had told the Liddell children over time. While it is widely believed that Alice Liddell inspired the titular character of his books, the stories themselves were not intended as allegories but were created for the amusement of children. Following the success of the first book, Dodgson also based the sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, on further stories he had shared with the Liddell family.312