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‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ was written for a real girl named Alice Liddell — imagine inspiring a classic just by existing.

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Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) first told the story to Alice Liddell during a boating trip in 1862, then expanded it into a book published in 1865. Alice was the inspiration and the name, though the Wonderland story itself is fictional and heavily imaginative.

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