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). 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. He died of pneumonia in Guildford, Surrey.

Works

Literary works La Guida di Bragia, a ballad opera for the marionette theatre (around 1850) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) Phantasmagoria, and other poems (1869). A collection of poems. Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice found there (includes "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter") (1871) Pillow Problems The Hunting of the Snark (1876) Rhyme? and Reason? (1883) A collection of poems, including Phantasmagoria and The Hunting of the Snark A Tangled Tale (1886) Sylvie and Bruno (1889) Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893) Three Sunsets and other poems What the Tortoise said to Achilles (1895)

Mathematical works A syllabus of Plane Algebraic Geometry (1860) The Fifth Book of Euclid treated algebraically (1858 and 1868) The Alphabet Cipher. An elementary treatise on determinants, with their application to simultaneous linear equations and algebraic equations Euclid and his modern rivals (1879), both literary and mathematical in style Symbolic Logic Part I Symbolic Logic Part II (published posthumously) The Game of Logic Some popular fallacies about vivisection Curiosa Mathematica I (1888) Curiosa Mathematica II (1892) The Theory of Committees and Elections, collected, edited, analyzed, and published in 1958, by Duncan Black

Posthumous portrait by Herkhomer

Further reading

• Bowman, Isa 1899. The Story of Lewis Carroll, told by the real Alice in Wonderland. Dent, London
• Cohen, Morton N. 1995. Lewis Carroll: a biography. London: Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-62926-4
• Clark, Ann 1979. Lewis Carroll: a biography. London: J.M. Dent) ISBN 0-460-04302-1
• Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson 1898. The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll. London: T. Fisher Unwin
• De La Mare, Walter 1932. Lewis Carroll. Faber & Faber, London.
• Dodgson, Charles L. The Pamphlets of Lewis Carroll, v.1 The Oxford Pamphlets (1993) ISBN 0-8139-1250-4; v.2 The Mathematical Pamphlets (1994) ISBN 0-9303-26-09-1; v.3 The Political Pamphlets (2001) ISBN 0-930326-14-8; v.4 The Logic Pamphlets (2010) ISBN 978-0-930326-25-8
• Lennon, Florence Becker 1947. Lewis Carroll: a biography. Cassell, London.
• Williams et al 1979. The Lewis Carroll handbook. Dawson, Kent. List of literature by and about Dodgson.

Lewis Carroll Media

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  1863 photograph of Carroll by Oscar G. Rejlander

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  One of Carroll's own illustrations

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  The Jabberwock, as illustrated by John Tenniel for Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, including the poem "Jabberwocky"

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  Photo of Alice Liddell taken by Lewis Carroll (1858)

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  The Rossetti Family, by Lewis Carroll (1863). L-R: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Frances Polidori and William Michael Rossetti

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  Reconstructed nyctograph, with scale demonstrated by a 5 euro cent

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  A posthumous portrait of Lewis Carroll by Hubert von Herkomer, based on photographs. This painting now hangs in the Great Hall of Christ Church, Oxford.

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  Lewis Carroll in later life