Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born on January 27, 1832 and died on January 14, 1898 although he went by the name Lewis Carroll; he was a ‘British author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer.’ We know him from Alice Adventures in Wonderland and the continuing called Through the Looking Glass. Although he even made a comic poem called The Hunting of the Snark and a really dumb poem called Jabberwocky
His family predominantly northern English and he was part Irish so he was probably drunk all the time. Irish people always have the reputation of drinking a lot or so they have you believe in all the movies. Most of Dodgson ancestors belonged to the traditional English upper-middle class professions like the army and the church. His great grandfather was also named Charles Dodgson had had worked for the Church and made his way all the way up to a bishop. His grandfather was named Charles too. He joined the army and was killed in action in 1803. The oldest Charles went into the other family business and became a priest and took holy orders.
Dodgson was a pretty smart man he won a double first degree in mathematics. He could have had a good life but instead he decided to marry his first cousin in 1827 and turned into a country person. He had all together eleven kids in his life time. He had eight girls and four boys.
Dodgson senior made his way up the ranks of the church, he published sermons, translated Tertullian, and became an Archdeacon of Ripon Cathedral’ and he helped out in the intense religious disputes that would dived up the Anglican Church.
Charles did not go to school like us for he was how schooled. By the time he was seven years old he was reading “The Pilgrim’s Progress”. They said that he was left handed they said he suffered from psychological trauma from having to do this but they don’t really have any evidence to support that. He also suffered from anther disability he had a stutter which this did not help him in every day life. They say that he only stuttered when he was in an adult company and he did not do this with kids. Cause of this he made the Dodo in the story “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. He did not go to a real school until he was twelve. In 1845 Dodgson moved to Rugby School he was not very happy there. In the end of 1850 he left Rugby but they don’t know why. Then in 1851 he went to Oxford. His mom died from “inflammation of the brain”.
Even with the death of his mom he still worked hard. Then he got an Honor Moderations and a little bit after he got a Studentship from his dad’s old friend Canon Edward Pusey. He was so good in math that he held the Mathematical Lectureship for twenty six years. He did not like the work for he thought it was boring and he did like the pay.
Dodgson was six foot tall and skinny he had curly brown hair with blue eyes. He could not hear very good cause when he was seventeen he came down with a case of whooping cough this also made his chest weak in later life. He was a pretty good entertainer he could sing pretty well and he was not scared to do it in front of a crowd, also he was good at telling stories. Back then you had to entertain your self and he could do that pretty good.
Dodgson suffered from server migraines, and they say that later on down the line that some one will come up with Alice in Wonderland syndrome. Because you can get this but some family member of yours had to have server migraines. They say you can even have some overt migraines you’re self and still get this disorder. They say that this syndrome makes the people think that there body is changing in shapes and sizes. They do not know if he has this syndrome or not. But I think he might have had this syndrome that might be why he put that in the story. People say that he was on drugs but they have not found any evidence of him using drugs in his diaries. Although they still say he was on drugs cause he mentioned things in his stories that would seam like he would be on drugs.




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