In his diary for July 4, 1862, a young Englishman described "...an expedition up the river to Godstowe with three Liddells," daughters of his college dean. "I told them a fairy tale which later I undertook to write out for Alice."
Childhood was never the same again, for the young man was Lewis Carroll and the book, ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
Carroll was a singular character even in his early years. An ordained minister and professor of mathematics at Oxford, he had a remarkable talent for whimsey, puzzles and paradox. And Alice was not its only blossom. When Queen Victoria asked him to send her his next book, she received a treatise on Euclid.
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