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THE MAKING OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND
About the Author : Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , third of eleven children of an Anglican priest, was a mathematician and a logician who was a lecturer at Oxford for some 26 years. He was also an accomplished photographer, and a Church Deacon. Dodgson's pen name, (and the name by which you will undoubtedly know him best) , was Lewis Carroll. He is best known for his whimsical tales, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Lewis Carroll - 1832 - 1898 Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Alice Pleasance Liddell In Carroll's original (1862-1864) manuscript for the story, Alice's Adventures Underground, which he personally illustrated, Alice was not the little blonde girl in a pinafore we have come to know from subsequent illustrations. Instead, she was originally a winsome, dark haired child, whose likeness had been patterned after ten year old Alice Liddell, the child of a church colleague, for whom the Alice stories had been originally created. Dodgson first told the story during a pleasant summer outing with friends. Reverend Dodgson, along with a Christ Church colleague, Robinson Duckworth, and the three young daughters of the Dean of Christ Church at Oxford, (Alice, Lorina, and Edith Liddell), in a rowing boat hired from Salter's boatyard, near Folly Bridgehad all set out on a lazy, two hour rowing trip down the river Isis to Godstow, that July 4th in 1862.
In Carroll's original (1862-1864) manuscript for the
story, Alice's Adventures Underground, which he
personally illustrated, Alice was not the little blonde
girl in a pinafore we have come to know from
subsequent illustrations. Instead, she was originally a
winsome, dark haired child, whose likeness had been
patterned after ten year old Alice Liddell, the child of
a church colleague, for whom the Alice stories had
been originally created.
Dodgson entertained his fellow passengers with a story he created on the spur of the moment for 10 year old Alice. Alice and her sisters were enchanted with the tale, and Alice later pleaded with Carroll to commit the story to paper, which he did, but he did not complete it until the following February.
The first manuscript, which was called Alice's
Adventures under Ground is thought to have probably
been destroyed in 1864 when, on November 26th 1864,
Dodgson presented Alice Liddell with a more elaborate
hand-printed second version which included 37 of his own
illustrations as a Christmas present. The manuscript,
entitled "Alice's Adventures Underground" was
presented to Alice Liddell, inscribed as "A Christmas Gift
to a Dear Child, in Memory of a Summer Day ".
THE MAKING OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND, Worksheet
What was the name of the original Alice? Name two books by Lewis Carroll. 1.
Who urged Dodgson to publish the story? When was the 3rd^ version published? In what month was the story finished? What subject did Dodgson lecture in? What was the pen name of Rev. C. L. Dodgson? How many books did Carroll write? Why was the first edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland withdrawn? What does C. L. stand for in Dodgson’s name? How many siblings did Dodgson have? Who illustrated the 2nd^ manuscript? What was the date of the boat trip? When was the second manuscript presented? How old was Alice Liddell when the story was first told? When was “Through the Looking Glass” published? Where did the rowing trip end? When was the original manuscript of Alice’s Adventures Underground written? What university did Dodgson lecture at? Which publishing company first published Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland? Why did Dodgson use a pen name? When was the first manuscript destroyed? Who were in the rowing boat when Dodgson first told the story?
