By: Anonymous Go Ask Alice Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) was the pseudonym of Charles Dodgson. Dodgson was born in Daresbury, Cheshire, and was the third eldest of eleven children. Dodgson entered Christ Church, Oxford, in 1851 to study mathematics, and he stayed there as a professor of math for the next twenty-six years. He was fascinated by games and puzzles, and the plot of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland leans heavily on card games. In 1855, Henry Liddell became the dean of Christ Church, and Dodgson became a fast friend to his three daughters, Lorina, Alice and Edith, whom he would take on rowing expeditions on the Thames. Dodgson's meetings with these girls were the basis for this famous story. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was first published in 1865. The elements that make Alice such an enduring and fascinating story are th....

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