Nov. 26, 1862

Posted November 28, 2007, 3:44 pm by Growing Bolder


Oxford mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson sends a handwritten manuscript called "Alice's Adventures Under Ground" to 10-year-old Alice Liddell.
Dodgson suffered from a severe stammer, except when he spoke with children. His tale of a girl who falls down a rabbit hole would become one of the earliest children's books written simply to amuse children, not to teach them.

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