Lewis Carroll er eit pseudonym: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson var
forfattarens eigentlege namn. Han var foreleser i matematikk i Christ
Church i Oxford. Dodgson byrja historia 4. juli 1862, då han ferda i ein
robåt på elva Isis i Oxford saman med Pastor Robinson Duckworth, med
Alice Liddell (ti år) - dottera til Diakon av Christ Church, samt hennar
to søstre Lorina (13 år) og Edith (åtte år). Som det kjem fram i diktet
i byrjinga av boka, spurde dei tre jentene Dodgson om ei forteljing og
motviljeg starta han å fortelje dei den fyrste versjonen av historia.
Det er mange referansar halvvegs gøymd igjennom heile boka, som då
endeleg vart publisert i 1865. --
Lewis Carroll is a pen-name: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was the author's
real name and he was lecturer in Mathematics in Christ Church, Oxford.
Dodgson began the story on 4 July 1862, when he took a journey in a
rowing boat on the river Isis in Oxford together with the Reverend
Robinson Duckworth, with Alice Liddell (ten years of age) the daughter
of the Dean of Christ Church, and with her two sisters, Lorina (thirteen
years of age), and Edith (eight years of age). As is clear from the poem
at the beginning of the book, the three girls asked Dodgson for a story
and reluctantly at first he began to tell the first version of the story
to them. There are many half-hidden references made to the five of them
throughout the text of the book itself, which was published finally in
1865.
