Editing Alice Liddell (section)

==Origin of ''Alice in Wonderland''==
[[File:Edith Liddell, by William Blake Richmond.jpg|thumb|left|Edith Liddell ([[William Blake Richmond]], c. 1864)]]
On 4 July 1862, in a [[Watercraft rowing|rowing boat]] travelling on [[the Isis]] from [[Folly Bridge]], [[Oxford]], to [[Godstow]] for a picnic outing, 10-year-old Alice asked Charles Dodgson (who wrote under the [[pseudonym|pen name]] [[Lewis Carroll]]) to entertain her and her sisters, Edith (aged 8) and Lorina (13), with a story. As the Reverend [[Robinson Duckworth]] rowed the boat, Dodgson regaled the girls with fantastic stories of a girl, named Alice, and her adventures after she fell into a rabbit-hole. The story was not unlike those Dodgson had spun for the sisters before, but this time Liddell asked Mr. Dodgson to write it down for her. He promised to do so but did not get around to the task for some months. He eventually presented her with the manuscript of ''Alice's Adventures Under Ground'' in November 1864.

[[File:AAUG p06.png|The fictional character was named after her. (Illustration by Lewis Carroll)|thumb|220px|right]]
In the meantime, Dodgson had decided to rewrite the story as a possible commercial venture. Probably with a view to canvassing his opinion, Dodgson sent the manuscript of ''Under Ground'' to a friend, the author [[George MacDonald]], in the spring of 1863.<ref>Dodgson's MS diaries, vol.8, p. 89, British Library</ref> The MacDonald children read the story and loved it, and this response probably persuaded Dodgson to seek a publisher. ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'', with illustrations by [[John Tenniel]], was published in 1865, under the name Lewis Carroll. A second book about the character Alice, ''[[Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There]]'', followed in 1871. In 1886, a facsimile of ''Alice's Adventures Under Ground'', the original manuscript that Dodgson had given Liddell, was published.