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Where did Lewis Carroll tell the original Alice story to the Liddell children?
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Lewis Carroll
British novelist Lewis Carroll, 1863.
Lewis Carroll (the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) originally told the story that would become Aliceās Adventures in Wonderland to Lorina, Alice, and Edith Liddell during a boat trip on the River Thames on July 4, 1862.12
Accompanied by his friend Robinson Duckworth, Carroll rowed the children from Oxford to Godstow, where the group picnicked on the riverbank before returning to Christ Church later that evening. It was during this excursion that Carroll recounted the tale, which he later wrote out by hand for Alice Liddell under the title Aliceās Adventures Under Ground.231