Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll)…
July 1862 CE
Information is scarce (Dodgson's diaries for the years 1858–1862 are missing), but it seems clear that his friendship with the Liddell family was an important part of his life in the late 1850s, and he grew into the habit of taking the children on rowing trips (first the boy Harry, and later the three girls) accompanied by an adult friend to nearby Nuneham Courtenay or Godstow.
It is on one such expedition on July 3, 1862 that Dodgson invents the outline of the story that will eventually become his first and greatest commercial success.
He tells the story to Alice Liddell and she begs him to write it down, and Dodgson will eventually (after much delay) present her with a handwritten, illustrated manuscript entitled Alice's Adventures Under Ground in November 1864.
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