when was alice in wonderland written

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (often just called Alice in Wonderland) was first published on 4 July 1865.

Quick Scoop

• The book’s full title is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and it was written by Lewis Carroll (pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson).

• The first edition was issued on 4 July 1865, but due to printing problems it was partly withdrawn and then reissued later that year, dated 1866.

• Carroll had earlier created a shorter handwritten version, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground , for Alice Liddell in 1864, before expanding it into the published book.

A bit of story-style context

On a summer boating trip on 4 July 1862, Carroll told the first version of the tale to Alice Liddell and her sisters, who begged him to write it down. Over the next couple of years, he expanded that playful riverbank story into the much longer, stranger Wonderland adventure that reached print on 4 July 1865.

In other words, the story was imagined in 1862, handwritten for Alice in 1864, and fully published for the public in 1865.

TL;DR: Alice in Wonderland as a published novel dates to 4 July 1865, developed from earlier versions Carroll told and wrote for Alice Liddell in the early 1860s.

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