<Li> <P> The grave of Alice Hargreaves in the graveyard of the church of St Michael and All Angels, Lyndhurst </P> </Li> <P> The grave of Alice Hargreaves in the graveyard of the church of St Michael and All Angels, Lyndhurst </P> <P> On 4 July 1862, in a rowing boat travelling on the Isis from Folly Bridge, Oxford, to Godstow for a picnic outing, 10 - year - old Alice asked Charles Dodgson (who wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll) to entertain her and her sisters, Edith (aged 8) and Lorina (13), with a story . As the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed the boat, Dodgson regaled the girls with fantastic stories of a girl, named Alice, and her adventures after she fell into a rabbit - hole . The story was not unlike those Dodgson had spun for the sisters before, but this time Liddell asked Mr. Dodgson to write it down for her . He promised to do so but did not get around to the task for some months . He eventually presented her with the manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground in November 1864 . </P> <P> In the meantime, Dodgson had decided to rewrite the story as a possible commercial venture . Probably with a view to canvassing his opinion, Dodgson sent the manuscript of Under Ground to a friend, the author George MacDonald, in the spring of 1863 . The MacDonald children read the story and loved it, and this response probably persuaded Dodgson to seek a publisher . Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with illustrations by John Tenniel, was published in 1865, under the name Lewis Carroll . A second book about the character Alice, Through the Looking - Glass and What Alice Found There, followed in 1871 . In 1886, a facsimile of Alice's Adventures Under Ground, the original manuscript that Dodgson had given Liddell, was published . </P>

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