Characterized by Carroll as "loving and gentle", "courteous to all", "trustful", and "wildly curious", Alice has been variously seen as clever, well-mannered, and sceptical of authority, although some commentators find more negative aspects of her personality. Although she shares her given name with Alice Liddell, scholars disagree about the extent to which she was based upon Liddell. The character originated in stories told by Carroll to entertain the Liddell sisters while rowing on the Isis with his friend Robinson Duckworth, and on subsequent rowing trips. A child in the mid- Victorian era, Alice unintentionally goes on an underground adventure after falling down a rabbit hole into Wonderland in the sequel, she steps through a mirror into an alternative world. Alice in one of John Tenniel's illustrations for Alice's Adventures in WonderlandĪlice is a fictional character and the main protagonist of Lewis Carroll's children's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871).
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