Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898

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Dates:
Birth 1832-01-27
Death 1898-01-14
Birth 1832
Death 1898
Gender:
Male
Britons
English

Biographical notes:

Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodson was born in England at Daresbury, Cheshire, to Charles Dodgson, an Anglican clergyman, and his wife Frances Jane Lutwidge on January 27, 1832. In 1851, Dodgson matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, and in 1855 was appointed to a mathematical lectureship in that college, of which he remained a member for the rest of his life.

A lifelong interest in writing, combined with a predisposition for story telling, word play, and games, led to a unique literary career in which his novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) achieved an instant and enduring popularity. It was followed in 1872 by a sequel Through the Looking-glass and, in 1874, by The Hunting of the Snark, an extended work in nonsense verse. These and other literary works were published under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll; Dodgson published a number of works in mathematics and logic under his birthname.

With a relatively small body of imaginative work Dodgson managed to coin words and usages and create memorable, if eccentric, characters whose enduring acceptance gained for his oeuvre a level of recognition rivalling the works of Shakespeare and Dickens in the English-speaking world. In addition to his work as an educator and imaginative writer Dodgson pursued an additional career as a notable amateur photographer in the two decades beginning about 1860.

Dodgson died in the home of his sisters at Guilford, Surrey, on 14 January 1898.

Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832-1898) was an English author, mathematician, and Anglican deacon best known for his children's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.

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Subjects:

  • Argles, Agnes Beatrice Jane
  • Authors, English
  • Authors, English
  • Children
  • Ciegos
  • Circle-squaring
  • Dyer, Benjamin, Mrs
  • Geometry
  • Henderson, Annie Wood Gray
  • Letters
  • Literature
  • Literature
  • Novelists, English
  • Photographs
  • Photography of children
  • Stevens, Edith Headland
  • Stories for children
  • Authors, English
  • Literature

Occupations:

  • Authors
  • Photographers

Places:

  • SU, UK
  • CH, UK
  • Borneo, Indonsesia (as recorded)
  • Dieppe, Seine-Inférieure (as recorded)
  • Oxford (England) (as recorded)
  • Étampes, Bailliage of, France (as recorded)
  • Husum, Denmark (as recorded)
  • Preston, Lancashire (as recorded)
  • Paris, France (as recorded)
  • Mayfield, Staffordshire (as recorded)
  • Great Britain (as recorded)
  • Strait of Lepanto, Greece (as recorded)
  • Great Britain (as recorded)

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