Alice is a fictional character and protagonist of Lewis Carroll's
children's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its
sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871). A child in the mid-Victorian
era, Alice unintentionally goes on an underground adventure after
accidentally falling down a rabbit hole into Wonderland; in the
sequel, she steps through a mirror into an alternative world.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. Although she shares her
given name with Alice Liddell, scholars disagree about the extent to
which she was based upon Liddell. 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. Her appearance changed from Alice's Adventures Under
Ground, the first draft of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, to
political cartoonist John Tenniel's illustrations of her in the two
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