‘Alice in Wonderland’ changed literature forever, by not attempting to teach kids, just entertain them
The delights of nonsense
On July 4, 1862, a little-known math tutor at Oxford, Charles Dodgson, went on a boat trip together with friend, Reverend Robinson Duckworth, Alice Liddell along with her two sisters. The day that is next under the pen name Lewis Carroll, he began writing the storyline he made up for the girls — what he first called the “fairy-tale of ‘Alice’s Adventures Under Ground.’”