LEWIS CARROL

English logician, mathematician, photographer, and novelist

 EARLY LIFE

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, best known by his pen name , Lewis Carroll, was born in the village of
Daresbury, England, on January 27, 1832. The eldest boy in a family of 11 children, Carroll
frequently made up games and wrote stories and poems, some of which were similar to his later
published works, for his seven sisters and three brothers. As a boy, Carroll excelled in mathematics
and won many academic prizes. At age 20, he was awarded a studentship to Christ
Church,University of Oxford.He studied math graduated in 1854, and in 1855 he became a math
tutor at the college. He made a big impact on Victorian children’s literature.
 MOST FAMOUS WORKS

• His best-known works are Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-
Glass, And What Alice Found There (1872) ,,A Tangled Tale (1885),Sylvie and Bruno (1889)
The Nursery "Alice" (1890), and some of his notable poems are:The Hunting of the Snark and
Twinkle Twinkle little bat.He also wrote mathematical books.
• Many of Carroll's philosophies were based on games. His interest in logic came purely from the
playful nature of its principle rather than its uses as a tool. He primarily wrote comic fantasies
and humorous verse that was often very childlike
• Many aspects of Lewis Carroll's life influenced his writing. Some of these aspects include his
mathematical background and logical disposition, interest in and photography of little girls,
abnormal eating habits, dual personality, sleeping difficulties, Victorian lifestyle, and neglected
childhood.
 ALICE

In 1856 Carroll met Alice Liddell, the four-year-old

daughter of the head of Christ Church. During the
next few years Carroll often made up stories for Alice
and her sisters.But Alice was his favorite In July
1862, while on a picnic with the Liddell girls, Carroll
recounted the adventures of a little girl who fell into a
rabbit hole. Alice asked him to write the story out for
her. He did so, calling it Alice's Adventures under
Ground. After some changes, this work was published
in 1865 as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with
illustrations by John Tenniel.

Photo by: Lewis Carrol

• Alice in Wonderland is a classic in a children’s literary genre known as ‘nonsense’. Nonsense
literature presents language and situations which are not normal. In English, this is a genre that
rose to prominence in Victorian England
• Lewis Carroll suffered from a rare neurological disorder that causes strange hallucinations and
affects the size of visual objects, which can make the sufferer feel bigger or smaller than they are
– a huge theme of the book. The disease, first discovered by English psychiatrist John Todd in
1955, was later named Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. It is also known as Todd’s syndrome.
• He died in London of pneumonia on January 14 of 1898.
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