![]() ![]() ![]() It was this picture that startled Melanie Benjamin, author of a new historical novel, Alice I Have Been. In the back of the book was a photograph Dodgson had taken of Alice Liddell. A few years later, he sent over "Alice's Adventures Underground," a manuscript dedicated to the real little girl he spent so much time with.ĭodgson's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was published shortly thereafter, under the pen name Lewis Carroll. At the age of 10, Alice, the youngest of the Liddell girls, requested that Professor Dodgson write down one of many the stories he told her. ![]() Charles Dodgson, a shy and awkward mathematics teacher in Oxford, England, spent a good deal of his free time with the Liddells: a family with three sisters who lived just across the street. ![]()
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