Monday, October 15, 2007

He was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson on January 27, 1832. He loved the world of photography. He always paid great attention to the littlest detail. You really had to do back in the 1850's. It is said that he gave up the whole photography thing when dry developing was invented because it made it too easy for him. He was into challenges and having to work hard. He is one of the best photographers of his time. He found photography as a way to get into higher social circles.

He was home schooled until he was twelve and then was sent to a private school near Richmond. Then years later he moved to Rugby to attend an English Public School. Then went on to attend Oxford College, the same college his father had attended. He was a very intelligent individual. At the age of seventeen he suffered from a severe case of whooping cough and that did not leave him very good hearing in his right ear. The whooping cough was more than likely responsible for his chronically weak chest that later on lead to his hesitation problem.

He had a hesitation problem around adults, but was fine around kids. He feared the adulthood. He had many interests in his life. He wanted to be a writer. In which he was inspired during his younger years. He wanted to write books, poems, short stories, and even in magazines. He was emotional at times but what human being isn’t? He was great at math which he was a mathematical lecturer, but this was something that he did not enjoy doing, he just done it for the money. He was even a good singer and did not mind singing in front of people. He was also an Anglican clergyman, English author, and logician.

He is most known for his books like Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. As well as his poems like “The Hunting of the Snark” and “Jabberwocky” all in the genre of literary nonsense. He was a good author and had quite the imagination.

He was into theatre and arts. He loved visiting London in his free time. Though he was handsome and attracted to women he did not ever get married. He liked being around older women and young girls. He never had anything relationship wise going on with them. He had a great love for children. He loved to be around them, he could be himself around them. He dropped his friends once they hit puberty because of the fact that they were maturing and starting to act like adults. Once his father died he had a bad case of depression.

He invented The Wonderland Postage-Stamp Case in 1889. It was a clothed-backed folder with twelve slots, two marked for inserting the most common used stamp and then one for every other denomination. The folder was put into a slip case decorated with a picture of Alice on the front and the Cheshire Cat one the back. They could be carried in a pocket or a purse with out any problems. When it was issued it came with a copy of his pamphlet lecture Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing. He also invented the Word Latter. A brain teaser by changing the word into another word one letter at a time such as CAT goes to COT then to DOT, and ends with DOG.

It was said that he was using psychoactive drugs. Some think that he smoked marijuana and did mushrooms because of the way he talked in his story Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland a story about a hallucinating drug trip.

He had many brothers and sisters. They were a church going family. His great grandfather was a preacher. He wrote many sermons for his grandfather. They also had a family business. His father and mother were cousins. His family was from English and some Irish decent.

He died in The Chesnutt’s home in Guildford on January 14, 1898 of pneumonia following influenza. He was fixing to be sixty-six. He’s buried in the Mount Cemetery in Guildford.

http://www.lewiscarroll.org/carroll.html

http://www.lewiscarroll.cc/briefbiography3.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll

3 comments:

Mr. Neuburger said...

Nice work Crystal. You have provided a lot of information here. I only see one area for you to work on. You have several sentence fragments. Here is an example: "In which he was inspired during his younger years." This a prepositional phrase and not a sentence. Anyway, nice work!

Mr. Neuburger said...

OOps. Sorry Heather.

Music = Life said...

That's an insult! Not trying to be mean or anything but I'm Heather!