Lewis Carroll’s original manuscript for Alice’s Adventures Under Ground. Complement with the story of Alice Liddell, the real girl who inspired Carroll’s beloved tale.

A long procession of charming little girls (we know today that they were charming from their photographs) skipped through Carroll’s life, but none ever took the place of his first love, Alice Liddell. “I have had some scores of child-friends since your time,” he wrote to her after her marriage, “but they have been quite a different thing.”

For Lewis Carroll’s birthday today, meet Alice Liddell, the real girl who inspired Wonderland. 

150 years ago today, on July 4, 1862, a young mathematician by the name of Charles Dodgson, better-known as Lewis Carroll, took a boat trip with a friend’s three little sisters, including the real-life Alice Liddell, who inspired a story he told on the boat – the story that later become Alice in Wonderland. 

A cipher by Lewis Carroll, which he invented between Alice and The Hunting of the Snark.