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A boat beneath a sunny sky,
Lingering onward dreamily
A boat beneath a sunny">
Lewis Carroll's boat trip with Alice
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On this day in 1865, the Rev Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), published Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
One of the best loved and most influential books ever published, the story was originally devised as a whimsical fantasy to entertain a group of three children on a boat trip. Dodgson was also a brilliant mathematician though he seems to have had difficulty relating to adults. His preference for the company of young girls raised eyebrows at the time but seems to have been innocent.
He wrote this poem years later, about the famous boat trip, A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky:
A boat beneath a sunny sky,
Lingering onward dreamily
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