Lewis Carroll es plum-nomo: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson esis la reala nomo dil autoro, olima mate ma tikala lektoro che Christ Church, Oxford. Dodgson komencis la rakonto ye la 4ma di julio 1862, dum pasajar en rem-batelo sur fluvio Thames an Oxford, ensemble kun reverendo Robinson Duckworth, kun Alice Liddell (lore evanta dek yari), la filiino dil dekano di Christ Church, e kun elua du fratini, Lorina (lore evanta dek e tri yari) ed Edith (lore evanta ok yari). Quale klare indikesas en l'introdukta poemo, la tri pueri pregis Dodgson rakontar ulo, ed il, unesme nevolunte, komencis naracar a li l'unesma versiono dil rakonto. Esas multa mi-celita aludi pri ca kin personi tra la tota texto di la libro, qua fine publikigesis en 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.