Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

In 1862, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson went on a rowboat outing with friends, including three daughters of the dean of Oxford's Christ Church College - Lorina, Edith, and Alice Liddell. Dodgson made up a story to entertain the girls during the short trip - Alice asked him to write the story down, and he agreed to. The result was Alice's Adventures under Ground, which friends of Dodgson's encouraged him to publish - it was to go through substantial revision and expansion before becoming the tale we are so familiar with today. Readers can now have a glimpse into the genesis of one of the greatest children's stories of all time.