Evelyn Hatch (1871 or 1874 – 1951) was an English child friend of the adult Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name of Lewis Carroll.

[2] Edwin Hatch was a theologian; author; a vice-principal of St. Mary Hall, Oxford; and later a university reader in Ecclesiastical history.

[4] The Hatch family moved in "stimulating circles", including friendships with Edward Burne-Jones, Algernon Charles Swinburne and William Morris.

[11] Dodgson journaled about dreams he had of Evelyn, which author Kym Brindle dissects in her book Epistolary Encounters in Neo-Victorian Fiction: Diaries and Letters.

[12] He also gave Evelyn many gifts, including cards, a wind-up bear, fourteen musical boxes, trips to the theatre and other outings.

[17] The New York Times also listed Hatch and her sister Beatrice in attendance at an event that the Carroll Foundation put on called "Alice 125".

[18] The reclining photograph of Evelyn was included in Britain's Tate Gallery 2014 show called Exposed: The Victorian Nude.

In calling her a “gypsy” Carroll infers the child is in a perpetual state of movement, belonging neither to society nor completely to nature.

He blurs her nipples and has her cross her legs again to hide genitalia and to suggest he is not commenting on the child's reproductive ability, but her innocent sexuality.