"Alice's Adventure in Wonderland" Published

Lewis Carroll, the pen name of the English mathematician and clergyman Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865. The book grew out of a story he had told to Alice Liddell and her sisters during a boating trip on the River Thames near Oxford, and it was illustrated by John Tenniel, whose drawings became inseparable from the text.

The tale follows a young girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantastical world governed by dream logic, where she encounters figures such as the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, and the Queen of Hearts. Its playful nonsense, wordplay, and inventive logic broke sharply with the heavily moralistic tone of much earlier children's literature.

Carroll followed it in 1871 with a sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, along with other works including the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland became one of the most influential and enduring works of English children's literature, widely translated and frequently adapted for stage and screen.