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Lewis Carroll er dulnefni: Réttu nafni hét höfundurinn Charles Lutwidge Dodgson og var stćrđfrćđikennari viđ Christ Church í Oxford. Dodgson hóf söguna 4. júlí 1862 ţegar hann var í róđrartúr á Tempsá í Oxford ásamt séra Robinson Duckworth, Alice Liddell (tíu ára) dóttur rektors Christ Church og tveimur systrum hennar, Lorinu (ţrettán ára) og Edith (átta ára). Eins og fram kemur í ljóđinu fremst í bókinni höfđu stúlkurnar ţrjár beđiđ Dodgson ađ segja sér sögu. Hann var tregur til en hóf ţó frásögn sem varđ fyrsta gerđ sögunnar. Margar hálfduldar tengingar til ţessara fimm bátsverja má finna víđsvegar í texta bókarinnar sjálfrar sem prentuđ var í lokagerđ 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.
