Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll in 1856, self-portrait

Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Daresbury, Cheshire, 27 January 1832 – Guildford, Surrey, 14 January 1898).[1] Dodgson was an Oxford don, a logician (mathematics expert), a writer, a poet, an Anglican clergyman, and a photographer. He is most famous for his story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland which he told to a young friend, Alice Liddell, when he took the girl and two sisters on a boat trip. Alice enjoyed the story and asked Dodgson to write it down. Carroll then wrote a second story about Alice called Through the Looking-Glass. Both stories are still popular all over the world.

Dodgson was a Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford, specialising in logic and mathematics. He wrote a number of books and pamphlets on the subject.[2] He died of pneumonia in Guildford, Surrey.

  1. The Literature Network
  2. Wakeling, Edward; Lewis Carroll (1992). Edward Wakeling (ed.). Lewis Carroll's games and puzzles. Courier Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-26922-1.

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