Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

Alice is a fictional character in the books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which were written by Charles Dodgson under the pen name Lewis Carroll.

The character has been said to be based on Alice Liddell, a child friend of Dodgson's. However Dodgson himself said several times that his 'little heroine' was not based on any real child, but was entirely fictional. The pictures certainly do not resemble Alice Liddell. 'Alice' is portrayed as a quaintly logical girl, sometimes even pedantic, especially with Humpty Dumpty in the second book. According to Through the Looking-glass, she is seven years old but seems to conduct herself like a somewhat older child.

Alice is popularly depicted wearing a pale blue knee-length dress with a white pinafore overtop, although the dress originally was yellow in The Nursery "Alice", the first coloured version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Her blonde hair is held back with a wide black ribbon, and in honour of Alice, such hairbows are sometimes called "Alice bands", particularly in the UK. As Alice was first drawn in black & white her colors would vary from artist to artist; it was Disney who made blue the most popular color for her dress and blonde for her hair. However, Alice has been colored by Tenniel in a blue dress, with white stripes at the bottom. Her pinafore is outlined in red.

Tenniel drew Alice in two variants: for "Through the Looking-glass" she was shown in striped stockings, an image which has remained in much of the later art.

Besides the books, Alice has appeared in other works, the most famous one being the Disney film version. Relating to the Disney film, Alice is also featured in the Playstation 2 game Kingdom Hearts, in the Wonderland level. In the game, Alice has been found guilty by the Queen of Hearts, and is put on trial. In the 2000 PC game, American McGee's Alice, Alice is portrayed as an older, dark-haired girl with green eyes.

The Czech surrealist Jan Švankmajer retells the story 1988 titled simply Alice.

Alice appears as a college-attending teenager alongside (J.M. Barrie's) Wendy Darling (Peter Pan), (L. Frank Baum's) Dorothy Gale (The Wizard Of Oz) and (C.S. Lewis') Susan Pevensie (The Chronicles of Narnia) in New York of 2005, in the comic The Oz/Wonderland Chronicles.

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