Monday, October 15, 2007


Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born January 27,1832. He was better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, he was a British author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and a photographer.

Some of his famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Loooking Glass as well as others.(Biblio.com)

His family was northern english, with some irish connections. His family was into church and his great-grandfather was a preacher.(Wikipedia.com)

They also had a family buisness. Lewis Carroll was a very intelligent to a academic career. He then got married to his first cousin in 1827 and retired. He was home schooled when he was youger. He was reading The Pilgrims Process when he was a child. He is vert smart and he had a lot of trauma when he was little. He went to his fathers old college. He was only there for a little while then his mother died.

In his early academic career he was very gifted and achievements came easy to him. But he also did not work very hard. Most of the time he was very lazy. He failed some important achievements in life by his laziness. Then later on he was diagnosed with other problems.(Biblio.com)

In the 1850's he took up a new form of art photography. He did very good in art and he began to express his personal inner philosophy. The beauty of art. He also had his own art studio. He also had portraits of notable sitters. Then he did photography more than he did write books. For over 24 years he had completely mastered his own studio and had over 3,000 images. Then later on photography had been forgotten around the 1960's.(Biblio.com)

Then he had more problems which left him with poor hearing in his right ear and was probably responsible for his cronically weak chest in his life. Dodgson had a stammer that troubled him. He was a entertainer also. He was a good singer and was not afraid to sing in front of people. He was also good at story telling. He was a snob but no more than a middle class Victorian. He was a commercial type person. He was also married more than once. He was anxious and ready to make his mark on the world as a writer or an artist as he was good at whatever he did. He published writing and sucess of the Alice books and everything he did.(Wikipedia.com)

Lewis Carroll was a artist also. He wrote poetry and short stories. In the middle1850's his work was nationally published in magazines. Also in 1856 he published his first piece of work under the name that made him famous. He had people that in his life to make him very sucessful, that brought them into his life.(Wikipedia.com)

A lot of his work through 1858-1862 was missing. Most of his was a big part of friendship of his friends families. In 1862 Dodgson invented the outline of stories that became the largest commercial sucess. Then he later illustrated Alice's Adventures Under Ground in November 1864. Then in 1868 his father died after the sequel to Alice's Adventure in Wonderland- Though the Looking Glass was published.(Wikipedia.com)

He invented the Wonderland Postage- Stamp Case in 1889. It was a cloth-backed folder with twelve slots. Some were marked for inserting them and used stamp. The folders were put into slip case decorated with pictures of Alice on the front of them. The sucess of Alice divided into two: the story of Dodgson real life and his envolving myths. He also had many mathematical papers and books that was all under his name.(Biblio.com)

About the talk of his drug use he had medical treatment in the 19th century. Also some artists and poets have been inspired to used drugs. He did not. There is no evidence that he did. He was a heavy cannabis smoker though. He did buy legal hash oil regularly. He really did not have a adult life. He then had more problems later on in life. He wrote a lot more. He understood all the new technologies and demostrated by the use of his camera. He also invented a system called writing called Nyctography. He invented that because he couldn't sleep and he wanted to write all the time. He also ended up inventing more things. One other thing he invented was the pencil and paper game world ladder, because he was so intelligent. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson died January14, 1898.(Biblio.com)




4 comments:

CLM said...
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CLM said...

Nice Job! Thought you might want to know you have a few grammar errors, but nothing major. Looks like you stayed up late to work on it.

MWS said...

wow im impressed that you already got this done. only problems i really had with it was structure. the paragraph spacing seemed to through it off some as a reader.l plus some of your sentences didn't flow really nicely. but overall its pretty good.

Mr. Neuburger said...

Hailee,
You have done a nice job summarizing pieces of information you have read. However, I would like to see you weave all of the facts you have so amply supplied into a more flowing "essay" type of response. I appreciate your early completion of this assignment.