Lewis carroll bbc biography pdf
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Lewis Carroll
British author and scholar (1832–1898)
For other people named Charles Dodgson, see Charles Dodgson.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (LUT-wij DOD-sən; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen nameLewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and reluctant Anglicandeacon. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871). He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. His poems Jabberwocky (1871) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. Some of Alice's nonsensical wonderland logic reflects his published work on mathematical logic.
Carroll came from a family of high-churchAnglicans, and pursued his clerical training at Christ Church, a constituent college of University of Oxford, where he lived for most of his life as a scholar, teacher and (necessarily for his academic fellowship at the
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Lewis Carroll: The Man and his Circle 9780755624119, 9781780768205
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Frontispiece: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) from an assisted self-portrait taken in 1875, from the author’s collection Archdeacon Charles Dodgson, from a photograph by CLD, taken in 1859 Lucy Lutwidge, from a photograph by CLD, taken in 1859 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) from a photograph by Reginald Southey, taken in 1856 James Tate, from a photograph in The History of Richmond School Bartholomew Price, from a photograph in the collection of the late Dr Francis Price Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an assisted self-portrait taken in 1856, from the author’s collection Alexander Macmillan, from a portrait painted by Sir Hubert von Herkomer in 1887 Frederick Macmillan, from a photograph by Dickinso
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The Times (London)
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Times Literary Supplement
"[Woolf is] scrupulous about drawing attention to gaps in the record ... The only area in which she allows herself the luxury of overstatement concerns the importance of Carroll's Oxford bank konto records, which she has unearthed, and of which she fryst vatten forgivably proud."
Wall Street Journal
"The Mystery of Lewis Carroll goes beyond the central controversy over his life to shed light on a ma