What kind of people are we talking about here… Alice, the Liddells and Charles Dodgson?
They were quite educated and pretty well off for the times. The typical working Englishmen of the time might earn 40 Pounds per year. These families earned many hundreds or even a few thousand pounds per year, could afford servants, owned property and were pretty well off financially. The Liddells were quite socially conscious and even entertained the idea of marrying Alice off to Prince Leopold, royal English blood. It is said that the Queen quashed the romance. There was a sense of being in an elite upper class for all concerned.
