It was formerly frequented in Victorian times by Alice Liddell, the inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, who used to buy sweets there.
In Victorian times, Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) brought Alice Liddell (aka Alice in Wonderland) and her sisters, Edith and Lorina, for river trips and picnics at Godstow.
In July 1846, Liddell married Miss Lorina Reeve (d. 1910), with whom he had several children, including Alice Liddell of Lewis Carroll fame.
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Alice Pleasance Liddell (4 May 1852 – 16 November 1934), for whom the children's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was originally told.
The main character is Tabitha Jute, a space pilot from Luna and owner of the starship Alice Liddell.
Burton quickly attracts a group of companions: the neanderthal Kazzintuitraabemss (nicknamed Kazz), the science fiction author Peter Jairus Frigate, and Alice Liddell.
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Alice Liddell, daughter of Henry Liddell, the Vice-Chancellor, was the eponymous subject of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
This is where the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) and the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat on July 4, 1862 up the river with three young girls — Lorina, Alice, and Edith Liddell.
Lewis Carroll, in the poem at the end of Through the Looking-Glass, used a variation of Row, Row, Row, Row Your Boat sometimes called A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky It was sung by Captain Kirk, Dr. McCoy and Mr. Spock at the beginning and end of the film Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989), reflecting issues about the need for self-discovery.
Opposite Christ Church is Alice's Shop, formerly frequented by Alice Liddell, and the model for the Sheep Shop in the "Wool and Water" chapter in Through the Looking-Glass.