Lewis Carroll is the penname o Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the screiver o "Alices Adventures in Wonderland", an a lecturer in Mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford. Dodgson stertit his famous bairns tale on 4 July 1862, when, on a bonny simmers efternuin, he tuik a lang jant in a rowin boat on the Thames Watter in Oxford, alangside his freen the Reverend Robinson Duckworth, Alice Liddell (ten yearauld) the dochter o the Dean o Christ Church, an her twa sisters, Lorina (aged thirteen), an Edith (juist aicht). Frae the poem at the stert o the buik, its plain that thae three wee lassies threipt on at puir Mr Dodgson tae tell thaim a tale. Tho sweirt at the stert, he wycely gied in, an by the en o their day oot, he had gethert thegither the makins o an awfy guid splore aboot a steirin wee lass caad Alice. Spreid richt throu the feenishd wark, furstpublished in 1865, are a wheen haufhidden references tae the five folk on that boat on that happy day. Thenks tae his "Poems Written Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" screived by Robert Burnsborn in Ayrshire twaehunner an fiftyfive years synethe Scots Language still hauds on tae its virr an vigour in the southwest o Scotland in the twintyfurst Century an is weel able tae add its unique flavour an zest tae the splores an jants o Aliceor in this casewee Alison. Settin the tale in Scotland, I felt that "Alice" soundit a wee bit "ower English" for the Scots narrative an being weelacquaint wi "Alison" as a weelloued, tradeitional Lowlan...

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