- Opening Crawl: Nearly a century ago, a professor at Oxford, Charles Dodgson - better known as Lewis Carroll - wrote a simple story, a fascinating story, called "Alice in Wonderland". But, perhaps the story was not so simple, because you see that Lewis Carroll modelled his creatures of Wonderland on the foibles of real people. The Cheshire Cat, it is told, is really a Dean of Oxford; the Queen of Hearts, the Queen; the Mad Hatter, a tailor; the White Rabbits, the Chancellor; and so on.