Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898

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

Biographical notes:

See Lewis Carroll in many other sources for biographical information.

From the guide to the Charles Lutwidge Dodgson collection, undated, (University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections [clrc])

Dodgson is better known as Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in wonderland.

From the description of [Letter, 18]94 Mar. 29, Ch.Ch., Oxford [to Mabel Scott] / C. L. Dodgson. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 213330160

Charles Dodgson was an English novelist, essayist, writer of children's literature, and mathematician. He wrote literary works under the pen name Lewis Carroll.

From the description of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson collection of papers, [1851?]-1932 bulk (1864-1897). (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 144652048

From the guide to the Charles Lutwidge Dodgson collection of papers, 1851?]-1932, 1864-1897, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.)

Dodgson's (Lewis Carroll) hobby was taking and collecting photographs of little girls.

From the description of Photograph of Miss Connie Gilchrist, and letter to Edwin Hatch, 1877. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 38158152

English author.

From the description of Autograph letter signed : Ch. Ch. [Christ Church, Oxford], to Edith Miller, 1895 Dec. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870676

From the description of Autograph letter signed : Ch. Ch. [Christ Church, Oxford], to Mrs. Liddell, 1890 May 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870673

From the description of Autograph letter signed : Ch. Ch. [Christ Church], to Ethel [Riadore], 1882 May 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870674

From the description of Letter signed : Christ Church, Oxford, to Mrs. Tennyson, 1882 Apr. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874725

Coventry Patmore was an English novelist, poet, essayist, and literary critic.

From the guide to the Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore collection of papers, 1841]-1948, 1841-1892, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.)

Epithet: alias 'Lewis Carroll', author and mathematician

British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000815.0x00004b

Charles Lutwidge Dodson was born in England at the rectory at Daresbury, Cheshire, to Charles Dodgson, an Anglican clergyman, and his wife Frances Jane Lutwidge on 27 January 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.

From the guide to the Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Collection, 1850-1971, (The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center)

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 .

From the guide to the Lewis Carroll Letters, 1882-1892, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries)

Pseudonym of C.L. Dodgson, English writer.

From the description of Autograph letters signed : Christ Church, Oxford; and Chestnuts, Guildford, to Arthur Sullivan, 1877 Mar. 24 to 1877 May 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125547

English mathematician, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, best known for his children's books written under the name of Lewis Carroll.

From the description of ALS : Guildford, to Julia Arnold, 1880 June 7. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122347830

From the description of Picture book, [ca. 1850]. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122580995

English author, poet, and mathematician.

From the description of Letter, [18]93 Apr. 4 : the Chestnuts, Guildford [England], to Mrs. Seymour [i.e. Mrs. Rev. Henry Fortescue Seymour], [Nettlecombe Rectory, Taunton, Somerset, England?]. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34365021

English author.

From the description of Autograph letter signed : Oxford, to Miss Yonge, [18]80 May 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133576

Forms part of the Tracy W. McGregor Library.

From the description of Letter to Mrs. Stevens [manuscript], 1891 April 5. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647859363

English writer and mathematician.

From the description of Letters, 1890-1892. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81057211

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  • 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

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  • Authors
  • Photographers

Places:

  • Great Britain (as recorded)
  • Strait of Lepanto, Greece (as recorded)
  • Great Britain (as recorded)
  • 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)
  • SU, UK
  • CH, UK

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