On July 4, 1862, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and the Rev. Robinson Duckworth rowed a boat up the Isis with three sisters, including 10-year-old Alice Pleasance Liddell. Along the way, Dodgson told the girls a story about the adventures of a girl named Alice. Three years later, under the pen name Lewis Carroll, Dodgson published Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, with illustrations by John Tenniel. Sir Walter Besant later described the book as being "of that extremely rare kind which will belong to all the generations to come until the language becomes obsolete."
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| Chapter 1: The White Rabbit, checking his pocket watch. |
