Lewis Carroll er dulnefni: Rettu nafni het hofundurinn Charles Lutwidge Dodgson og var starofraoikennari vio Christ Church i Oxford. Dodgson hof soguna 4. juli 1862 pegar hann var i roorartur a Tempsa i Oxford asamt sera Robinson Duckworth, Alice Liddell (tiu ara) dottur rektors Christ Church og tveimur systrum hennar, Lorinu (prettan ara) og Edith (atta ara). Eins og fram kemur i ljooinu fremst i bokinni hofou stulkurnar prjar beoio Dodgson ao segja ser sogu. Hann var tregur til en hof po frasogn sem varo fyrsta gero sogunnar. Margar halfduldar tengingar til pessara fimm batsverja ma finna viosvegar i texta bokarinnar sjalfrar sem prentuo var i lokagero 1865. – Lewis Carroll is a pen-name: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was the author’s real name and he was lecturer in Mathematics in Christ Church, Oxford. Dodgson began the story on 4 July 1862, when he took a journey in a rowing boat on the river Thames in Oxford together with the Reverend Robinson Duckworth, with Alice Liddell (ten years of age) the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, and with her two sisters, Lorina (thirteen years of age), and Edith (eight years of age). As is clear from the poem at the beginning of the book, the three girls asked Dodgson for a story and reluctantly at first he began to tell the first version of the story to them. There are many half-hidden references made to the five of them throughout the text of the book itself, which was published finally in 1865.