Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote verse and fiction under the pen-name of Lewis Carroll, was born at Daresbury, Cheshire, where his father, the Rev. Charles Dodgson (afterwards Archdeacon of Richmond), was Perpetual Curate, on 27th January 1832.ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote verse and fiction under the pen-name of Lewis Carroll, was born at Daresbury, Cheshire, where his father, the Rev. Charles Dodgson (afterwards Archdeacon of Richmond), was Perpetual Curate, on 27th January 1832.
He was educated at Richmond School (Yorkshire) and Rugby, before proceeding to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1851, where he became Student and Mathematical Lecturer in 1855. He relinquished his lectureship in 1881, but retained the studentship for life. He was ordained Deacon in 1861 but did not proceed to full orders and seldom preached. He died in his sisters' house at Guildford on 14th January 1898.
He made friends with a large number of children, mainly little girls, the most famous of whom were Alice Liddell and her sisters Lorina and Edith, to whom he told the story of 'Alice's Adventures Underground' on 4th July 1862 during a picnic on the Thames at Godstow just outside Oxford. This grew into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), followed by Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, published in 1871. These two books rank as the supreme example of imaginative and humorous fiction for children in English — perhaps in any language.
Dodgson followed these with The Hunting of the Snark (1876), a worthy pendant, being the only example of a long 'nonsense' poem that is completely successful. His last book for children, Sylvie and Bruno (two parts, 1889 and 1893), was unsatisfactory as a whole, though containing flashes of his original genius. He also wrote simple book on Logic and several mathematical puzzles for children (as 'Lewis Carroll') and a number of advanced mathematical works under his own name. He is also remembered as the best photographer of children of the Victorian period and one of the principal figures in the early history of photography in this country.