Lewis Carroll er eit pseudonym: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson var forfattarens eigentlege namn. Han var foreleser i matematikk i Christ Church i Oxford. Dodgson byrja historia 4. juli 1862, d疇 han ferda i ein rob疇t p疇 elva Isis i Oxford saman med Pastor Robinson Duckworth, med Alice Liddell (ti 疇r) - dottera til Diakon av Christ Church, samt hennar to s繪stre Lorina (13 疇r) og Edith (疇tte 疇r). Som det kjem fram i diktet i byrjinga av boka, spurde dei tre jentene Dodgson om ei forteljing og motviljeg starta han 疇 fortelje dei den fyrste versjonen av historia. Det er mange referansar halvvegs g繪ymd igjennom heile boka, som d疇 endeleg vart publisert i 1865. -- Lewis Carroll is a pen-name: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was the author's real name and he was lecturer in Mathematics in Christ Church, Oxford. Dodgson began the story on 4 July 1862, when he took a journey in a rowing boat on the river Isis in Oxford together with the Reverend Robinson Duckworth, with Alice Liddell (ten years of age) the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, and with her two sisters, Lorina (thirteen years of age), and Edith (eight years of age). As is clear from the poem at the beginning of the book, the three girls asked Dodgson for a story and reluctantly at first he began to tell the first version of the story to them. There are many half-hidden references made to the five of them throughout the text of the book itself, which was published finally in 1865.