I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Dodgson, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell.
Lewis Carroll (Author)
Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-98), grew up in
Cheshire in the village of Daresbury, the son of a parish priest.
He was a brilliant mathematician, a skilled photographer and a
meticulous letter and diary writer. Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland, inspired by Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of
Christ Church in Oxford, was published in 1865, followed by Through
the Looking-Glass in 1871. He wrote numerous stories and poems for
children including the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark and
fairy stories Sylvie and Bruno.
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