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| July 4, 1862 |
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| Charles Dodgson (1832 - 1898) |
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Charles Dodgson's Alice
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| by Steve King |
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On this day in 1862, while rowing on the Thames at Oxford, Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) began to tell the three Liddell sisters the story that would become Alice in Wonderland. Alice, the ten-year-old middle sister, was so taken with this improvisation that she badgered Dodgson to complete it; when he had it done two and a half years later he presented it to her, with his own illustrations and bound in leather, as a Christmas gift. By this time many friends had read or listened to the story with enthusiasm, and Dodgson was already well along with his plans to publish. When the book came out in 1865, most critics seemed relieved to find a children's book that was not preachy-sugary, nor yet more 
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