In the many photos of Alice Liddell taken by Charles Dodgson, the shadow of the real Alice gazes back at us. This one was taken in 1860 and corresponds with a portrait on the last pages of the Alice's Adventures Under Ground manuscript. In that work, Alice Liddell appears under the thoughts of book-Alice's older sister, "remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days."

The lens of memory is evoked, but also of the outside gaze: the sister, friend, writer who imagines and enscribes Alice's adventures even as the real Alice Liddell is voiceless in what would become the iconic text.