Even darker, there has been a suggestion that Carroll harbored an inappropriate sexual obsession with Alice Liddell. Many biographers have suggested, unsurprisingly, that the Alice in the stories was inspired by the real-life Alice Liddell, something Carroll always denied. There has always been a fair amount of controversy surrounding Carroll and his original manuscript and intentions with the story. The manuscript, along with Carroll’s original drawings of his whimsical fantasy world, stayed in Alice’s possession until her husband’s death in 1928, when she was forced to sell it for financial reasons. Later, Carroll wrote the story down and illustrated his own manuscript called Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, which he gave as a Christmas gift to Alice Liddell. According to Carroll and the Liddell family, he told the story to their three daughters Lorina, Edith, and Alice as a way to pass the time. Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dawson, first came up with the story in 1862 while on a river trip with his friends, the Liddell family. The first person to illustrate the Alice stories was the author himself. Lewis Carroll’s Own Illustrations Illustration from Alice’s Adventures Under Ground by Lewis Carroll, 1862-4, via The British Library
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