48 Characters Found in Pop Culture That Are Based on Real People

We’ve all seen the classic film, and perhaps many of us have read Lewis Carroll’s famous books that inspired it. Not many of us know how Carroll thought up such a fantastical tale, though. It all started when 10-year-old Alice Lidell asked Carroll to entertain her and her sisters during a boating excursion.

Carroll, a family friend of the Liddell’s, very often told the Liddell sisters fun, made-up fairytales. This story about Alice falling into a rabbit hole was different because little Alice asked him to write it down for them. Carroll worked on it and gave Alice a manuscript titled Alice’s Adventures Under Ground months later. It’s considered to be the first, very early draft of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.