“ALICE IN WONDERLAND”
MRS HARGREAVES ILL LONDON, November 3. It is reported that Mrs. Alice Pleasant Hargreaves, the original of 'Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland,” is gravely ill in the Kentish village of Westerham. She is 82,' and has outlived all who knew the happy days of her youth. Her sister, Mrs Liddell, and her son are at her bedside. Last year, she crossed to America for the Carroll celebrations, which recalled her mystic childhood and memories of a great writer who immortalised her name. Her death is now expected at any moment.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 November 1934, Page 9
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