Alice was published in 1865, three years after Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed a boat up the Isis on 4 July 1862 (this popular date of the golden afteron might be a confusion or even ather Alice-tale, for that particular day was cool, cloudy, and rainy) with the three young daughters of Henry Liddell (the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and Dean of Christ Church): Lorina Charlotte Liddell (aged 13, born 1849, Prima in the book's prefatory verse); Alice Pleasance Liddell (aged 10, born 1852, Secunda in the prefatory verse); Edith Mary Liddell (aged 8, born 1853, Tertia in the prefatory verse).