"Grin like a Cheshire cat" was a well known phrase in Victorian England, and there are several examples of its use prior to Alice being written, so Carroll must have taken the name from there - perhaps because of his place of birth: Daresbury, Cheshire, England. The origin of the term is unknown.
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Yes, Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. His real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and his pen name 'Lewis Carroll' was derived from the Anglicized version of his Latinized name.
Alice...from the books 'Adventures in Wonderland' of 1865 and 'Alice through the Looking Glass' and 'What Alice found there' of 1871
Lewis Carroll had no wife as he never married. He was forbidden from marrying by the terms of his employment.
Alice is the hero of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.She was inspired by a real little girl whose name was Alice Liddell.
The heroine's name in "Through the Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll is Alice.
Lewis Carroll. The author of Alice in Wonderland.
The doorknob doesn't appear in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, it only appears in Disney's 1951 animated film. In that film its name is never mentioned, but it does refer to itself as 'doorknob' at one point.
Lewis Carroll didn't write a musical version of Alice in Wonderland. He wrote it as a novel.
Lewis Carroll first told the story of Alice to Alice Liddell and her sisters Lorina and Edith on a boating trip they went on with Carroll's friend Robinson Duckworth.
Lewis Carroll may have thought he was in love with Alice Liddell, even though she was only a child. It is not unreasonable to say he was obsessed with her. He allegedly proposed to her when he was 31 and she was only 11.
Lewis Carroll's best friend is John Liddell.
"Jabberwocky", originally included in the novel "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There".