In this passage Lewis Carroll incorporated references to everyone present on the original boating expedition of July 4, 1862 during which Alice's Adventures were first told, with Alice as herself, and the others represented by birds: the Lory was Lorina Liddell, the Eaglet was Edith Liddell, the Dodo was Lewis Carroll, and the Duck was Rev. Robinson Duckworth.
According to The Annotated Alice, Carroll had originally had the characters dry off by having the Dodo lead them to a nearby house for towels. As they walked, only Alice, the Lory, and the Eaglet could keep up. This was a reference to a boating outing Carroll had with the three girls and their family. It began to rain and the group left for a nearby house. Carroll and the sisters got there first, as they walked the fastest. Carroll ultimately replaced this scene in the book with the Caucus race, as he felt that it would only have been funny to the people familiar with the incident.
A New Alice in the Old Wonderland (1895) ·New Adventures of Alice (1917) ·Alice Through the Needle's Eye (1982) ·Wonderland Revisited and the Games Alice Played There (2009)
Retellings
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland retold in words of one syllable (1905) ·Alice in Verse: The Lost Rhymes of Wonderland (2010)
Parodies
The Westminster Alice (1902) ·Clara in Blunderland (1902) ·Lost in Blunderland (1903) ·John Bull's Adventures in the Fiscal Wonderland (1904) ·Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream (1904)
Imitations
Mopsa the Fairy (1869) ·Davy and the Goblin (1884) ·Gladys in Grammarland (1896) ·Rollo in Emblemland (1902) ·Justnowland (1912)
Reimagining
American McGee's Alice (2000) ·The Looking Glass Wars (2006) ·Alice (2009) ·Alice: Madness Returns (2011)