This Is Not The Liddells

This is the MacDonald family–or part of it. Lewis Carroll is sitting with four children who product-tested ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDERGROUND. Their mother, Louisa–pictured here–read the story to them and the children loved it. Their father, George, encouraged his friend to lengthen the story. (So did Alice Liddell.)
George MacDonald wrote fairy tales and fantasies and is said to have influenced J.R. R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. George and Louisa had eleven children. The most athletic of these children was Mary, who was given boxing lessons by Wilfred Dodgson, the brother of "Lewis Carroll."
Her brother, Greville, modeled for this statue–BOY WITH DOLPHIN–by Alexander Munro. It is in Hyde Park, London.