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The most notable, or notorious, figure to demonstrate an obsession
with the Little Girl was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 – 1898) better
known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll and as the writer of Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass: And What Alice
Found There (1871). Besides his literary notoriety Dodgson became
(in)famous for his, some would say questionable, hobby of photographing
children who were more often than not naked (or “nude”) little girls (Fig.
78). The inspiration for his classic children’s stories and the heroine of his
tales, the young Alice Pleasance Liddell, was also his main muse for his
photographic work (Fig. 79).
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Figure 78: Charles Dodgson
Evelyn Hatch, 1879
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