later he was ordained a deacon but never went on to priests orders. He did preach every once in a while, often to the servants of the college, but what he enjoyed most was preaching to children. Now from this time until his death in 1898, the story of Lewis Carroll is the story of his literary work and of his child friends. The story of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, mathematician, lecturer, and scholar, is secondary (Kunitz 120). On June 27, 1865 was when “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” was published (Morton 129). Six years later in 1872, “Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There” was published (132). Carroll died at Guilford of influenza (Kunitz 121).One day Dodgson took the day off and went rowing with the smaller daughters of the Dean of the College. That very eventful picnic was noted in Carroll’s neat and interminable diary that night. The entry runs as follows: “I made an expedition up the river to Godstow with the three Liddells; we had tea on the bank there and did not reach Christ Church until half-past eight.” But at that time he did not deem one subsequently enhanced detail of the day sufficiently important to be worth chronicling. He said nothing of the fairy tale he told that day. It was a tale of a little girl as the gravely attentive Alice Liddell who used to prod him when he ventured to not continue the story for a time. In response to such prodding he carried the story 1along on that and other afternoons and finally committed it to manuscripts as “Alice’s Adventures Underground.” Somewhat expanded this was published three years later as “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (Woollcott 1). The publishing process was not the hard part of getting the book released. The difficult part was finding someone to illustrate the book. They eventually found John Tenniel, a well-known British caricaturist. When the book was released two thou...
