Alice Day and the language of Lewis Carroll

Alice Day is an annual celebration held on 4 July to mark the anniversary of the ‘golden afternoon’ in 1862 when Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematics tutor at Christ Church, Oxford, took Alice Liddell and her sisters on a boating picnic up the river Thames. During the trip he amused the sisters by telling the story of a young girl’s adventures down a rabbit hole. He later presented Alice with a handwritten copy of the story, called Alice’s Adventures Under Ground; in 1865 a revised version was published as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland under the pen name Lewis Carroll.
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