He ingoa karangaranga a Lewis Carroll: Ko Charles Lutwidge Dodgson te ingoa tuturu. He kaikau whau i te Pangarau i Christ Church, Oxford. No te 4 o Hurae 1862 ka timata ai a Dodgson te korero nei. I te tere waka ratou ko ana hoa hoe i te Awa o Thames. Ko Reverend Robinson Duckworth tera, me Alice Liddell (tekau nga tau), tana tuakana a Lorina (tekau ma toru nga tau), me tana teina a Edith (ka waru nga tau), nga tamahine a te Amokapua o Christ Church. Kei te waiata mai i te timatatanga o te pukapuka te whakamarama, na te pinono a nga tamawahine e toru nei ki tetehi pakimaero ka whakauaua te whakapuakina e Dodgson te timatatanga o te korero nei. He korero huna huri noa o te pukapuka mo te tokorima nei. No te tau 1865 ka tangia ai. — 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 are made to the five of them throughout the text of the book itself, which was published finally in 1865.