| Lewis
Carroll aka Charles Dodgson
 Lewis
Carroll, pen name for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson- the mathematics
lecturer at Christ College, Oxford England.
Lewis Carroll
was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson on January 27, 1832.
He was the third child and eldest son of eleven children.
His father,
Reverend Charles Dodgson, was said to be an asture, puritanical
Victorian man. His mother, Francis Jane Lutwidge, was the
essence of the Victorian "Gentlewoman".
Carroll was shy,
partly deaf in one ear, and suffered a stammer that was generally
most noticeable around adults. He was content to be alone
and was fond of playing and inventing games, puzzles and creative
writing. He often entertained his seven sisters (and three
brothers) with stories and invented games.
Carroll followed
in his father's footsteps as they both attended college
at Christ Church, Oxford. He was a good scholar and won
(as had his father) a lifetime fellowship (called Studentship)
and residency at Christ College. The fellowship would last
as long as he remained unmarried and proceeded to take Holy
Orders.
Carroll never
married and remained a resident at Christ College till his
death in 1898. He became a deacon, but stopped short of
taking the Priesthood, perhaps because of his speech defect
interfering with the pulpit duties.
He met Alice
Liddell at the home of the Dean in 1856. The friendship
with the Liddell children blossomed in 1861 to 1862. And
one day, July 4 1862;, he improvised the story, as a children's
storyteller, that became the famous classic.
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