Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Cambridge Library Collection - Fiction and Poetry)

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Carroll came from a family of high-church Anglicans, and developed a long relationship with Christ Church, Oxford, where he lived for most of his life as a scholar and teacher. Alice Liddell – a daughter of Henry Liddell, the Dean of Christ Church – is widely identified as the original inspiration for Alice in Wonderland, though Carroll always denied this. In 1856, Dean Henry Liddell arrived at Christ Church, bringing with him his young family, all of whom would figure largely in Dodgson's life over the following years, and would greatly influence his writing career. Dodgson became close friends with Liddell's wife Lorina and their children, particularly the three sisters Lorina, Edith, and Alice Liddell. He was widely assumed for many years to have derived his own "Alice" from Alice Liddell; the acrostic poem at the end of Through the Looking-Glass spells out her name in full, and there are also many superficial references to her hidden in the text of both books. It has been noted that Dodgson himself repeatedly denied in later life that his "little heroine" was based on any real child, [40] [41] and he frequently dedicated his works to girls of his acquaintance, adding their names in acrostic poems at the beginning of the text. Gertrude Chataway's name appears in this form at the beginning of The Hunting of the Snark, and it is not suggested that this means that any of the characters in the narrative are based on her. [41] Copenhagen Street in Islington, north London is the location of the Lewis Carroll Children's Library. [116] His early academic career veered between high promise and irresistible distraction. He did not always work hard, but was exceptionally gifted, and achievement came easily to him. In 1852, he obtained first-class honours in Mathematics Moderations and was soon afterwards nominated to a Studentship by his father's old friend Canon Edward Pusey. [19] [20] In 1854, he obtained first-class honours in the Final Honours School of Mathematics, standing first on the list, and thus graduated as Bachelor of Arts. [21] [22] He remained at Christ Church studying and teaching, but the next year he failed an important scholarship exam through his self-confessed inability to apply himself to study. [23] [24] Even so, his talent as a mathematician won him the Christ Church Mathematical Lectureship in 1855, [25] which he continued to hold for the next 26 years. [26] Despite early unhappiness, Dodgson remained at Christ Church, in various capacities, until his death, including that of Sub-Librarian of the Christ Church library, where his office was close to the Deanery, where Alice Liddell lived. [27] Character and appearance [ edit ] Health problems [ edit ] 1863 photograph of Carroll by Oscar G. Rejlander

Wakeling, Edward (April 2003). "The Real Lewis Carroll – A Talk given to the Lewis Carroll Society". Archived from the original on 8 July 2006 . Retrieved 12 January 2023. In 1982, his great-nephew unveiled a memorial stone to him in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey. [117] In January 1994, an asteroid, 6984 Lewiscarroll, was discovered and named after Carroll. The Lewis Carroll Centenary Wood near his birthplace in Daresbury opened in 2000. [118]

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Cohen, Morton N. (1976). "Hark the Snark". In Guilano, Edward (ed.). Lewis Carroll Observed. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. pp. 92–110. ISBN 0-517-52497-X. Cohen goes on to note that Dodgson "apparently convinced many of his friends that his attachment to the nude female child form was free of any eroticism", but adds that "later generations look beneath the surface" (p.229). He argues that Dodgson may have wanted to marry the 11-year-old Alice Liddell and that this was the cause of the unexplained "break" with the family in June 1863, [29] an event for which other explanations are offered. Biographers Derek Hudson and Roger Lancelyn Green stop short of identifying Dodgson as a paedophile (Green also edited Dodgson's diaries and papers), but they concur that he had a passion for small female children and next to no interest in the adult world. [ citation needed] Catherine Robson refers to Carroll as "the Victorian era's most famous (or infamous) girl lover". [92] He also devised a number of games, including an early version of what today is known as Scrabble. Devised some time in 1878, he invented the "doublet" (see word ladder), a form of brain-teaser that is still popular today, changing one word into another by altering one letter at a time, each successive change always resulting in a genuine word. [69] For instance, CAT is transformed into DOG by the following steps: CAT, COT, DOT, DOG. [29] It first appeared in the 29 March 1879 issue of Vanity Fair, with Carroll writing a weekly column for the magazine for two years; the final column dated 9 April 1881. [70] The games and puzzles of Lewis Carroll were the subject of Martin Gardner's March 1960 Mathematical Games column in Scientific American. Dodgson died of pneumonia following influenza on 14 January 1898 at his sisters' home, "The Chestnuts", in Guildford in the county of Surrey, just four days before the death of Henry Liddell. He was two weeks away from turning 66 years old. His funeral was held at the nearby St Mary's Church. [88] His body was buried at the Mount Cemetery in Guildford. [29] Fit for a Queen". Snopes. 26 March 1999. Archived from the original on 26 March 2022 . Retrieved 25 March 2011.

His work in the field of mathematical logic attracted renewed interest in the late 20th century. Martin Gardner's book on logic machines and diagrams and William Warren Bartley's posthumous publication of the second part of Dodgson's symbolic logic book have sparked a reevaluation of Dodgson's contributions to symbolic logic. [76] [77] [78] It is recognized that in his Symbolic Logic Part II, Dodgson introduced the Method of Trees, the earliest modern use of a truth tree. [79] Algebra [ edit ] Flood, Raymond; Rice, Adrian; Wilson, Robin (2011). Mathematics in Victorian Britain. Oxfordshire, England: Oxford University Press. p.41. ISBN 978-0-19-960139-4. OCLC 721931689.In 1856, Dodgson took up the new art form of photography under the influence first of his uncle Skeffington Lutwidge, and later of his Oxford friend Reginald Southey. [60] He soon excelled at the art and became a well-known gentleman-photographer, and he seems even to have toyed with the idea of making a living out of it in his very early years. [29]

Woolf, Jenny (4 February 2010). The Mystery of Lewis Carroll. St. Martin's Press. pp.298–9. ISBN 978-0-312-67371-0.Robson, Catherine (2001). Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentlemen. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p.137. ISBN 978-0691004228. Taking place entirely outdoors, all you need to play is a phone, the award-winning CluedUpp GeoGames app and a team of 6 willing adventurers. Dressing up is highly encouraged. Schütze, Franziska: Disney in Wonderland: A Comparative Analysis of Disney's Alice in Wonderland Film Adaptations from 1951 and 2010 Emerson, R. H. (1996). "The Unpronounceables: Difficult Literary Names 1500–1940". English Language Notes. 34 (2): 63–74. ISSN 0013-8282. He is commemorated at All Saints' Church, Daresbury, in its stained glass windows depicting characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, erected in 1935 [89] Controversies and mysteries [ edit ] Sexuality [ edit ]