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Charles Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll: Xie Kitchen 1876.
Well before Dodgson began writing Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (published in 1865) he was a practicing and very proficient photographer, making portraits of many of his young friends (in- cluding the delightful Alice Liddell). Apart from the Liddell sisters, one of his favourite sitters was Alexandra (Xie) Kitchen, whom he frequently requested to dress in exotic costumes and pose for him in his Oxford studio. In the Victorian period, children - with their connotations of innocence and unspoilt beauty - were of course a favourite subject of both photographers and photography connoisseurs - Julia Margaret Cameron (practising 1864-1875) made several hundred images of her maids, and her daughters and the sons and daughters of her friends (she also photographed Alice Liddell at age 19). Like Cameron, Dodgson (who was an acquaintance of hers) used the then current wet-collodion process (invented 1851), and it is supposed that he gave up photography af- ter the invention of the dry-collodion process, which he thought made photography so easy that anyone could do it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Kitchin
Marie Spartali (Spartali-Stillman): Images 1878. (Julia Margaret Cameron: Marie Spartali as Heidi 1869 + Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Marie Spartali Stillman 1869 + Marie Spartali: Love’s Messenger 1869).
