As a youth, Carroll wrote plays, poetry, and short stories for the amusement of his family. He began to publish them in 1854 and adopted the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, a play on the Latin form of his first and middle names, in 1856. That same year Carroll struck up a friendship with the wife of the dean of Christ Church, Lorina Liddell, and her children, including a daughter named Alice. Carroll took the children on rowing trips, during which he told them stories to entertain them. He called the female protagonist of one story Alice, and the namesake child asked him to write the story down for
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Originally Alice’s Adventures Under Ground
