The Real Alice

Yesterday, we went to the Museum of Natural History in which we found an interesting section called “The Real Alice”.

Lewis Carroll, whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dogson, was a mathematician, photographer and storyteller.

It is believed that on July 4^th 1862, he went to a rowing expedition with his friends such as Robinson Duckworth and three children; one of them was Alice Liddell. During that day, he created stories including his friends and places in Oxford.

In addition, Alice´s father was the principal of Christ Church and he supported the construction of the University Museum.

Dodgson brought Alice and her sisters to the University Museum and told them stories that he created. In these stories, he included animals that were shown in the museum like the famous Oxford Dodo.

This Dodo was a creature that lived in the Island of Mauritius.  It is the most famous of all creatures that had become extinct. Also, it lost the ability of fly because for millions of years there were no predators.

In 1680, the bird was extinct because the Europeans found it easy to catch.

After that, in 1865 he published those stories with the name of “Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland”. He also wrote mathematic books and children books including “Through the Looking Glass” and “What Alice Found There”.

We decided to write about Alice because it is a wonderful story which origin is here in Oxford. Also, we wanted to learn more about it and the reality of the story.