One hundred and fifty years ago a young mathematician by the name of
Charles Dodgson, better-known as Lewis Carroll, boarded a boat with a
small group, setting out from Oxford to the nearby town of Godstow,
where the group was to have tea on the river bank. The party consisted
of Carroll, his friend Reverend Robinson Duckworth, and the three little
sisters of Carroll's good friend Harry Liddell - Edith, Alice, and
Lorina.
Entrusted with entertaining the young ladies, Dodgson fancied a story
about a whimsical world full of fantastical characters, and named his
protagonist Alice. So taken was
Alice Liddell
with the story that she asked Dodgson to write it down for her, which
he did when he soon sent her a manuscript under the title of Alice's
Adventures Under Ground.
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