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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ( / ˈlʌtwɪdʒ ˈdɒdsən / LUT-wij DOD-sən; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician and photographer. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871).
Jul 1, 2024 · Lewis Carroll (born January 27, 1832, Daresbury, Cheshire, England—died January 14, 1898, Guildford, Surrey) was an English logician, mathematician, photographer, and novelist, especially remembered for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871). His poem The Hunting of the Snark (1876) is ...
Lewis Carroll. 1832–1898. Mary Evans Library - stock.adobe.com. Self-effacing, yet having an expressive critical ability; reveling in the possibilities of fancy, though thoroughly at home with the sophisticated nuances of logic and mathematics, Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was an individual who, through his rare and diversified ...
Jan 23, 2020 · Lewis Carroll is an etymological play on his given name, Charles Lutwidge. In 1856, Dean Henry Liddell arrived at Christ Church with his family. Carroll soon befriended his wife Lorina and their children Harry, Lorina, Alice, and Edith Liddell. He would take the children on rowing trips, and during one such adventure, in 1862, he came up with the plot that formed the basis of Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland.
Cathy Lowne Pat Bauer. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, widely beloved British children’s book by Lewis Carroll, published in 1865 and illustrated by John Tenniel. It is one of the best-known and most popular works of English-language fiction, about Alice, a young girl who dreams that she follows a white rabbit down a rabbit hole.
Lewis Carroll was the pseudonym of Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics at Oxford, who lived from 1832 to 1898. Carroll lived with physical deformities, partial deafness, and an irrepressible tamer. His unusual appearance caused him to behave awkwardly around other adults, and his students at Oxford saw him as a stuffy and boring teacher. He held strict religious beliefs, serving as a deacon in the Anglican Church for many years.
Jan 13, 2023 · Franziska Kohlt is a researcher in 19th-century history of science and literature. She is the author of numerous articles on Lewis Carroll, Victorian culture and science, and the forthcoming Alice Through the Wonderglass: The unexpected histories of a children’s classic (Reaktion 2024), and editor of The Lewis Carroll Review, and the Through ...
1898. Read poems by this poet. Renowned Victorian author Lewis Carroll was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson on January 27, 1832, in Daresbury, Cheshire, England. The son of a clergyman, Carroll was the third child born to a family of eleven children. From a very early age he entertained himself and his family by performing magic tricks and ...
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Lewis Carroll, orig. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, (born Jan. 27, 1832, Daresbury, Cheshire, Eng.—died Jan. 14, 1898, Guildford, Surrey), British logician, mathematician, and novelist. An unmarried deacon and a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Oxford, he enjoyed the company of young girls. His novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland ...
