Alice Pleasance Liddell was the primary inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.
The connection between Alice Liddell and this image is temporal but I am not permitted to say how, people get tetchy about time:
The Hatter said, tossing his head contemptuously. `I dare say you never even spoke to Time!’
`Perhaps not,’ Alice cautiously replied: `but I know I have to beat time when I learn music.’
`Ah! that accounts for it,’ said the Hatter. `He won’t stand beating. Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, he’d do almost anything you liked with the clock.
The other connection is that I cannot look at this image without being reminded of Charles Dodgon’s favourite young friend. But for the vagaries of time and place it might have been Pamela’s Adventures in Wonderland.
I am biased of course – Pam is my wife who grew up to be like this.
northumbrian : light 
My mother wanted such a hairstyle for me too and I loved it… sadly we visited the worst sheepshearer ever and I looked like a big bad full moon … I like your photo it’s a memory for me too :o)
Aha – reminds me of this advert 😀
A beautiful child and now a gorgeous woman!
Many thanks Cate, I certainly think so.
Delightful and intriguing interpretation of the theme northumbrianlight!
Many thanks Jane
Oh you really got me with this beauty!
Thanks Jean – the photograph was taken by Pam’s grandfather who was a keen photographer. Pam would like to point out that he insisted on ‘no smiling’, even on wedding photographs. Hence her sad expression 😦
It’s a delightful shot with her eyes smiling!
Such a beautiful spirit in those young eyes.
Thanks Julie – all this could go to someone’s head 😉