Inventing Wonderland- the extern influences on Lewis Carroll

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It took me a while to discover how to attract the attention of a 4-year-old, his name was Carter, when the situation required it to be calm. But: I placed young Carter as an additional friend of his favourite character Winnie the Pooh in the centre of a new Pooh-plot and tried to invent an exciting story with dangerous adventures as he sat on my lap listening more carefully than he had ever done before...
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I was successful, but of course and without understatement my stories were not in the least as fanciful and imaginative as Carroll's, not to mention were they worth publishing. And it was exactly this situation, Carter sitting on my lap, that I remembered when I read about Alice's Adventures, which Carroll also invented while telling them...
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Differences Between Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The L Carroll first published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865, three years after he had first told the story to the young girl Alice Liddell and her sisters, following her request for a story full of nonsense...	5 / 1165
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