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Tuesday 6 November 2012

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Cheshire Cat Wallpaper Biography
The Cheshire Cat became most famous with the fiction work by Lewis Carroll, published in 1864. Lewis Carroll is the pen name of Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote, "Alice in Wonderland," after telling an improvisational tale to a real little girl named Alice. The origin of the book is a story in itself:

Charles Dodgson was a mathematics professor at Oxford's Christ Church College. He was good friends with the dean, Rev. Henry George Liddell, and frequently entertained Liddell's three daughters on campus. Having grown up with nine sisters himself, Dodgson was naturally good at amusing them. He and his friend Mr. Duckworth took the dean's daughters on a picnic one afternoon. The dean's youngest daughter Alice was the main character in an improvisational story Dodgson made up to amuse the girls. This picnic-story was the seedling for the tale we all know as, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."

In this improvisational story, Dodgson invented the characters of the duck, the dodo, and the eaglet, whom Alice encounters. These were all inside jokes. The duck represented Mr. Duckworth. The dodo represented Dodgson, as that was his nickname, due to an unfortunate stutter. Rev. Dodgson pronounced his own name, "Do-Do-Dodgson." The eaglet Alice meets is a bit more contrived, but suffice it to say the bird represented one of Alice's sisters.

The Liddell girls loved the picnic-story so much that they begged and pleaded with Dodgson to write it down for them. Some months later, at Christmas, he produced a beautiful hand-made book containing his own illustrations and the story which he had told to the three girls on that one afternoon. The Liddell family felt that the story was so imaginative they urged Dodgson to publish it!

The Cheshire Cat was made famous in the book published in 1864, but Lewis Carroll did not "create" the Cheshire Cat. The origins of the Cheshire Cat are somewhat clouded. Most people feel the Wonderland character was a play on a popular expression, "to grin like a Cheshire Cat." This originated in Dodgson's birthplace, the county of Cheshire. Cheshire cheese is a dairy product made in this region, which dates from 1597, (according to Mr. Webster's Dictionary.) It has been speculated a Cheshire dairy had a picture of a grinning cat on their label, and perhaps even their cheese was formed into the face of a smiling cat. The phrase, "to grin like a cheshire cat," meant someone was extremely pleased with themselves. Considering the number of mice on a cheese farm, the resident felines were probably smiling indeed!

It is humorous to note that Queen Victoria was quite enamoured with Dodgson's published tale, and demanded of an attendant, "Bring me every book written by this man Dodgson!" She was quite upset when she was handed several books on mathematics, not knowing that Dodgson was an Oxford don.

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