Alice Liddell - Alice Liddell in Other Works

Alice Liddell in Other Works

Several later writers have written fictional accounts of Liddell:

• She is one of the main characters of the Riverworld series of books by Philip José Farmer.
• She plays a small but critical role in Lewis Padgett's short story "Mimsy Were The Borogoves".
• Canadian poet Stephanie Bolster wrote a collection of poems, White Stone, based on her.
• Katie Roiphe has written a fictional (claimed to be based on fact) account of the relationship between Alice and Carroll, titled Still She Haunts Me.
• In Alice I Have Been, author Melanie Benjamin has written a fictional account of Alice's life from childhood through old age - focusing on her relationship with Lewis Carroll and the way the publication of Alice's Adventures Under Ground affected her.
• The 1985 movie Dreamchild deals with her trip to America for the Columbia University presentation described above; through a series of flashbacks, it promotes the popular assumption that Dodgson was romantically attracted to Alice.
• Frank Beddor wrote The Looking Glass Wars, which reimagines the Alice in Wonderland story and includes real-life characters such as the Liddells and Prince Leopold.
• Liddell and Dodgson are used as protagonists in Bryan Talbot's 2007 graphic novel Alice in Sunderland to relay the history and myths of the area.
• The 2008 opera by Alan John and Andrew Upton Through the Looking Glass covers both the fictional Alice and Liddell.
• Alice Liddell is the name of the heroine's ship in the book Take Back Plenty by Colin Greenland.
• Alice, Edith, and Lorina Liddell are each featured in "Alice in the Country of Hearts", a manga created by QuinRose.
• The DS game "A Witch's Tale" makes reference to Alice creating the different kingdoms the main character named Liddell travels through with her voodoo cat doll named Dyna.
• Alice is the main protagonist in the video games American McGee's Alice and Alice: Madness Returns. She is an asylum patient who uses Wonderland as a means of catharsis.
• In the episodes "Duped" and "Fractures" of Warehouse 13, Alice Liddell is a murderer who was trapped in 'Lewis Carroll's Mirror' by Warehouse agents, and her consciousness temporarily escapes from the mirror into a character's body.