lewis carroll

Lewis Carroll

Jan 27, 1832

Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was born on January 27, 1832, Daresbury, Cheshire, England. He was a English logician, mathematician, photographer, and novelist, especially remembered for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871).

Early Life

1845

At the age of twelve, Lewis began studying at a private grammar school near Richmond. However, in 1845, the boy was transferred to the fashionable Rugby public school, where great importance was attached to the physical training of boys and instilling Christian values in them.
Young Carroll liked this school much less, but he studied well in it for four years and even demonstrated good aptitude for theology and mathematics.

Christ Church College

1850

In 1850 he entered Christ Church College, Oxford University. In general, he did not study very well, but he still showed outstanding mathematical ability. A few years later, Lewis received his bachelor's degree, and then began giving his own lectures in mathematics at Christ Church. He had been doing this for more than two and a half decades: working as a lecturer brought Carroll a good income, although he found it very boring.

Carroll and Liddells

1856

In 1856, Christ Church College changed its dean. Philologist and lexicographer Henry Liddell, as well as his wife and five children, came to Oxford to work in this position. Lewis Carroll soon became friends with the Liddell family and became their loyal companion for many years. It was one of the daughters of the married couple, Alice, who was four years old in 1856, and became the prototype of the well-known Alice of Carroll's most famous works.

Alice Liddell

1862

The writer often told Henry Liddell's children funny fairy tales, the characters and events of which he composed on the go. One summer in 1862, while on a boat trip, little Alice Liddell asked Lewis to once again write an interesting story for her and her sisters Loreena and Edith. Carroll got down to business with pleasure and told the girls a fascinating tale about the adventures of a little girl who got through the White Rabbit's hole into the Underworld.

Paradoxical Literature

1865

Lewis Carroll wrote his cult works - "Alice in Wonderland" and "Alice Through the Looking Glass" in 1865 and 1871. His writing style was unlike any other writing style that existed at the time. As a very creative person, with a rich imagination and inner world, as well as an outstanding mathematician with an excellent understanding of logic, he created a special genre of “paradoxical literature”.

The End

Jan 14, 1989

The writer died on January 14, 1898, the cause of death was pneumonia. His grave is located in Guildford, in the Ascension Cemetery.