1. Beatrice Sheward Hatch was an English muse of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll.
10 Facts About Beatrice Hatch
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Beatrice Hatch was one of a select few children that Dodgson photographed naked, therefore making Hatch the subject of much contemporary study and speculation.
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Beatrice Sheward Hatch was born in 1866 to Edwin Hatch and Evelyn Hatch.
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Edwin Beatrice Hatch was a theologian; author; a vice-principal of St Mary Hall, Oxford; and later a university reader in Ecclesiastical history.
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Beatrice Hatch had two younger sisters, being Ethel and Evelyn, the latter presumably being named after her mother.
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The Beatrice Hatch family moved in "stimulating circles", including friendships with Edward Burne-Jones, Algernon Charles Swinburne and William Morris.
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Beatrice Hatch attended Oxford High School, Oxford, a day school for girls in Oxfordshire.
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Beatrice Hatch acted in the stage play Much Ado About Nothing along with Dame Ellen Terry, both under the direction of Dodgson.
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Dodgson's photograph of Beatrice Hatch has inspired artists in contemporary times.
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Beatrice Hatch wrote her memories of Dodgson when she was an adult, as did other "child friends" Ethel Arnold and Ethel Rowel.