by Franco Biasotti

Alice In Wonderland

FrancoBiasotti — 2015-09-06 13:37:09 UTC

9 curious facts on the 150th

anniversary of the story

Fact 1

FrancoBiasotti — 2015-09-06 14:54:09 UTC

The protagonist is based on a real girl:

Alice is inspired on a girl called Alice Liddell, who met Lewis Carroll. It wasn't blonde as we can see her in books and movies, it was black-hair instead.

Fact 2

FrancoBiasotti — 2015-09-06 15:09:22 UTC

The tree is real too:

The famous tree of the cat of Cheshire was inspired by a tree that was in Liddell's house backyard, in Oxford. Alice was living there when she met Lewis.

Fact 3

FrancoBiasotti — 2015-09-06 15:36:59 UTC

Queen Victoria was a fan of the book:

According to a popular story, Queen Victoria was amazed with Carroll's book and she asked him to dedicate his next work.

Fact 4

FrancoBiasotti — 2015-09-08 03:29:49 UTC

There's a syndrome called "Alice In Wonderland":

It's related with the perception of the objects. Usually, it shows with migraine and epilepsy.

Fact 5

FrancoBiasotti — 2015-09-08 15:29:29 UTC

Carroll's real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson:

Lewis Carroll was his pseudonym.

Fact 7

FrancoBiasotti — 2015-09-08 15:40:10 UTC

The first movie is from 1903:

Some years after Carroll's death, the directors Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow filmed the story. It lasted 12 minutes, it was enough for that time.

Fact 6

FrancoBiasotti — 2015-09-08 15:40:11 UTC

The story was created during a travel in boat.

Carroll wasn't thinking of being a story writer for children but during that travel, Alice and her sisters gave him the first ideas.

Fact 8

FrancoBiasotti — 2015-09-08 23:13:58 UTC

The Dodo bird is Carroll himself:

He had problems with sluttering and sometimes he repeated the syllable 'Do'.

Fact 9

FrancoBiasotti — 2015-09-08 23:18:19 UTC

The illustrator of Alice In Wonderland hated the first edition.