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the author of the selected source text and how the work came to being in order to
understand a lot of related wordplay in the story.
II. Lewis Carroll and Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, English
logician, mathematician, photographer, and novelist, especially remembered for
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass
(1871). His poem The Hunting of the Snark (1876) is nonsense literature of the
highest order. Dodgson was the eldest son and third child in a family of seven girls
and four boys born in the old parsonage at Daresbury in England. He grew up
amusing his family and himself with language and writing. He entered Oxford
College in 1850, where he studied mathematics, later becoming a faculty member.
He was awarded a fellowship that had the stipulation that he remain single and enter
the clergy, which he did in 1861. Though he had no children of his own, he got along
best with youngsters. Dodgson's association with children grew naturally enough out
of his position as an eldest son with eight younger brothers and sisters. He also
suffered from a bad stammer (which he never wholly overcame, although he was
able to preach with considerable success in later life) and, like many others who
suffer from the disability, found that he was able to speak naturally and easily to
children. It is therefore not surprising that he should begin to entertain the children of
Henry George Liddell, Alice, Lorina and Edith. It was for the middle sister, Alice,
that Carroll wrote his Alice books. The first germination of the story took place on a
sunny early July day, when Dodgson took the Liddell sisters out boating on the
Thames with his friend Duckworth. The little girls demanded a story from Dodgson,
and he was quick to comply. Thus, Alice's adventures were born.
If it weren't for Alice, however, the story would never have been written
down. She kept pestering Dodgson to write down the story for her, which he did
eventually, albeit much later. She received her own hand-written and illustrated copy
of Alice's Adventures Underground "as an early Christmas present on November 26,
1864". Dodgson later expanded the story and finally published it under the title
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