Ashford [married name Devlin], Margaret Mary Julia [Daisy] (1881–1972), child writer, was born on 7 April 1881 at Elm Lodge, Petersham, Surrey, the eldest of the three daughters of William Henry Roxburghe Ashford (1836–1912), a former official of the War Office, and his wife, ...
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Margaret Mary Julia Ashford (1881–1972) by unknown photographer, c. 1890 Getty Images
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Fleming, Marjory (1803–1811), child diarist, was born on 15 January 1803 in Kirkcaldy, Fife, the third child of James Fleming (d. c.1840), accountant and magistrate, and Isabella Rae (d. 1850). Her mother was distantly connected to Walter Scott through her sister ...
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Marjory Fleming (1803–1811) by Isabella Keith Trustees of the National Library of Scotland
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Hargreaves [née Liddell], Alice Pleasance (1852–1934), prototype of the character Alice, was made famous by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1872). She was the second daughter of Henry George Liddell (1811–1898)...
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Maker: Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
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Alice Pleasance Hargreaves (1852–1934) by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), 1858 [The Beggar-Maid] © National Portrait Gallery, London
