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November 13, 1862: Lewis Carroll begins writing ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’

LONDON, UK. — The story of a bored girl named Alice, who had amazing adventures after she fell down a rabbit-hole, was made up by Carroll as he rowed up the River Thames with three young girls, Lorina, Alice and Edith Liddell. Alice, aged 10, asked Carroll to write down the story: Carroll began writing down the story on 13 November 13, 1862, entitling it “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground”.

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Page from the manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground, 1864. IMAGE: British Library.

LONDON, UK. — The story of a bored girl named Alice, who had amazing adventures after she fell down a rabbit-hole, was made up by Carroll as he rowed up the River Thames with three young girls, Lorina, Alice and Edith Liddell. Alice, aged 10, asked Carroll to write down the story: Carroll began writing down the story on 13 November 13, 1862, entitling it “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground”.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a work of children’s fiction by British mathematician and author Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.

A longer version of the story was later published as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

A sequel was published in 1871 as “Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There”.

In 1886, a facsimile of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, the original manuscript Dodgson gave Alice, was also published.

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