Lewis Carroll’s 'Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland' (1865) was inspired by a real girl named Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford. Carroll, whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, told the story to Alice and her sisters during a boating trip in July 1862. Alice Liddell was so captivated by the tale of the girl falling down a rabbit hole that she begged Dodgson to write it down. The original manuscript, titled 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground,' was gifted to her and featured Dodgson's own illustrations. When the book was finally published, it revolutionized children's literature by moving away from moralistic, didactic stories toward nonsense, wordplay, and pure imagination. While the fictional Alice is often depicted as a blonde (partly due to John Tenniel's famous illustrations), the real Alice Liddell had dark hair. The book has never been out of print and has been translated into at least 174 languages.