Great Regulars: [Charles L.] Dodgson, throughout his life,

loved children. Some theorize that it’s because he grew up entertaining his younger siblings, or because he had a stammer and was shy with adults. At Oxford, he became friends with the children of his college dean, Henry Liddell. Dodgson would tell the girls, Alice, Edith and Lorina, all sorts of stories, and sometimes the girls were characters in those tales. In 1862, Alice asked him to write one of the stories down, so he did.

from findingDulcinea: Happy Birthday: Lewis Carroll, Author of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”

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