Lewis Carroll was
born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson January 27, 1832 in Daresbury, Cheshire,
England. Dodgson created his pseudonym of Lewis Carroll by
translating his name
in Latin, Carolus
Lodovicus,
and then switching his first and last name around. While he had
dabbled in writing and poetry all his life, it was his fateful meeting
with Alice Liddell that would trigger one of the most beloved
children's
stories ever told. Carroll not only modeled the character of
Alice
after Liddell, he also began telling the adventures of Alice to Liddell
and her three sisters during a boat ride one day in the year
1862. Liddell liked
the story so much that she asked him to write it down for her and over
two years later she received her copy and the following year Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland was first published in 1865. Carroll
wrote Through the Looking Glass
as a follow up to Alice's Adventures
in
Wonderland. We can look at the two books as mirror images
of one another in several ways. In terms of opposite
settings, for example, the first book is set outside in warm weather,
but the second book begins six months later, indoors, during winter
weather. Also, in the first book, many of the characters are
playing cards, while in the second book, the characters are chess
pieces. Both books contain the character of Alice, but the
White Rabbit only appears in the first book. I have used the White
Rabbit as a way to connect the two books, since my stories contain
characters from both.
Now that I've properly warned you about the mayhem that your about to
encounter, I bid you farewell and leave you in the hands of Dr. Rabbit
himself...
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Down
the rabbit hole...
Image
Information: A Mad Tea Party by Arthur
Rackham, 1907. Ozone
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Poem: Excerpt from
All in
the Golden Afternoon by Lewis Carroll. Wikipedia
