Short answers, pulled from the story.
Lewis Carroll told the story on the 4th of July 1862 during a boat trip up the River Isis. The journey started at Folly Bridge in Oxford and ended upstream at Godstow.
The original handwritten copy was titled Alice's Adventures Under Ground when given as a Christmas gift on the 26th of November 1864. This private manuscript contained thirty-seven illustrations drawn by Carroll himself.
John Tenniel provided forty-two wood-engraved illustrations for the book published in November 1865. He was already known as the chief cartoonist for Punch magazine before accepting this commission.
The Dodo character represents Lewis Carroll because he stuttered his name Dodgson while speaking. The Hatter resembles Theophilus Carter an eccentric furniture dealer from Oxford.
The book has been translated into one hundred seventy-four languages since its original publication. A British silent film adaptation appeared in 1903 as the first screen version.