Alice in Wonderland was published in 1865, Carroll, who was a mathematician at Oxford (his non-pen name was Charles Dodgson) based the character of Alice on Alice Liddell – the daughter of Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, Henry Liddell. Carroll would take Alice and her sisters on row boating excursion. To entertain them, he would tell them tales of a bored little girl named Alice and her adventures in Wonderland. He wrote down the story and the rest is Wonderland history.