AUTHOR Lewis Carroll’s photographs of the girl who inspired Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland are going on display – together with images of his muse as an older woman.

Carroll’s images will be shown in the National Portrait Gallery exhibition Victorian Giants: The Birth Of Art Photography.

The Oxford academic and author of stories Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and its sequel Through The Looking Glass spent much of her younger life living in Croft-on-Tees, near Darlington, and attended Richmond Grammar School.

He photographed Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church and his neighbour, as a young girl.

Many years later she was also photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron, whose work is featured in the show.

Writer Carroll’s fascination with Liddell, who died aged 82 in 1934, has been the subject of speculation, with some alleging he was a paedophile.

But Phillip Prodger, the show’s curator, said no claims of impropriety were ever made in the author’s lifetime.

The images of Liddell as a girl come from the gallery’s own collection, but have only rarely been on display.

The photograph of Liddell as an older woman has been lent by the Wilson Centre For Photography, while The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is lending its famous print of Carroll’s work, Alice Liddell As Beggar Maid.

The exhibition will also feature a portrait of Carroll himself.

Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography runs from March 1 to May 20, 2018.