England: An Oxford wonderland
09.03.10
Never minimize the benefits of boredom. There are nearly 150 years, the three girls got so bored on a routine row along the Thames upstream of Oxford to a picnic that was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson established an alibi for the amusing path. It was such a success that the younger sister, Alice Liddell, Dodgson was asked to lower down to remove it.
Over the next two years Dodgson, also bored with his job of preparing maths at Christ Church College, view the history.He added that the parley bit amused - play, logic taken to absurd and caricatures of friends and colleagues, including Dean Liddell, who was both his boss and father of Alice -- and he was convinced to send it to a publisher.
He was caught, and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland under the pen name Lewis Carroll, has joined the list of surprisingly hungry classic children's books produced by academics at Oxford. It has never been out since buffer.
Like many of those other fantasies, this was not just kids who loved this book. Monarch Victoria was a particularly enthusiastic fan.
Source: New Zealand Herald