Who were Lorina and Edith Liddell?

Lorina and Edith Liddell were the sisters of Alice Liddell and the daughters of Henry George Liddell, the dean of Christ Church at the University of Oxford.12

Along with their sister Alice, Lorina and Edith were close child friends of the author Lewis Carroll, who was a mathematics lecturer at the college. Carroll frequently entertained the three girls in his rooms, where he would tell them fantastical stories and fairy tales that he improvised on the spot.123

It was during a picnic in July 1862 that Carroll originally told the story that would become his famous book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, to Lorina, Alice, and Edith.1