The Real Alice

On July 4, 1862, while rowing in a boat in Oxford, England, Charles Dodgson, University of Oxford lecturer, was asked by Alice Pleasance Liddell (10 years old) to tell a story to her and her two sisters: Lorina (13) and Edith (8). He made up a story using a 10-year-old female character also named Alice who fell down a rabbit hole. After asking Mr. Dodgson many times to write the story down, he did so. And in 1865 the story was published as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Mr. Dodgson's writer's name). Mr. Dodgson taught mathematics at Oxford and dabbled in the new art of photography. Above is one of the many pictures he took of his beloved friend Alice Liddell.