On January 27, 1832 in Darebury Cheshire, England, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born. His family was upper middle class, northern English, with Irish connections. He was best known as the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and by his pen name Lewis Carroll. He invented the pen name to use when he wrote children’s books. He was a logician, mathematician, English novelist, Anglican clergyman, and photographer.
Charles was the first son and third child out of eleven kids, seven girls and four boys. On July 11, 1832 Charles was baptized in his father’s church. Charles grew up in a strict Christian home. Their parents provided Charles and his sibling’s education. He wished to be like his father because he really looked up to him. Charles was brilliant in math and his father wanted him to follow in his footsteps.
He was sent off to a small private school close by Richmond at age twelve; Charles appeared to be happy and settled. Charles enrolled at Rugby School, on his fourteenth birthday. He was bullied from older boys because he was a shy, sensitive boy who had a stutter. He spoke easily to children in spite his stutter. Even though Charles accomplished high standards on his work, he was really unhappy. At the end of 1850 Charles left Rugby School. January 1851 he enrolled into Oxford. After only two days of being enrolled he was sent home. He was sent home due to his mother’s death at age forty-seven due to inflammation of the brain.
In 1848 Charles suffered from a lot of illnesses, which had an effect on the rest of his life. In the spring he caught whooping cough. Throughout his life he developed a cough that returned several times. He contracted mumps in the autumn, which left him a little deaf in his right ear, this problem never improved.
Photography was a hobby of Charles. In March 1856 he purchased his own camera and developing chemicals. He then began to experiment with pictures of landscapes, architecture, sculptures, and people. The subjects of his photographs were his family, friends, and colleagues. His greatest pleasure was photographing children. Alice Liddell the daughter of the dean at Christ Church was one of his subjects and the model for the fictional character Alice. Between 1880 and 1881 Charles gave up on both photographing and public speaking, and focused on writing. In 1880 Dodgson abruptly quite photographing. He had created 3,000 images in over 24 years and set up his own studio on the roof of Tom Quad. Less than 1,000 imagines over time and destruction had survived. Charles started writing poetry and short stories at a very young age. His work appeared in the national publications in 1854 and 1856.
In 1827 Charles Dodgson married his cousin and retired as a country parson. Biographers argued that Charles wanted to marry Alice Liddell an 11 year old child that he often photographed. One of the reasons biographer argued over the matter was because of his unexplained part from the Liddell family in June 1863. Yet again there is no evidence to back up their accusations. I find that accusing people without any evidence isn’t right; you should have evidence to back up what you accuse other people of.
Charles was accused of using drugs, but there is no evidence that he did. Laudanum was a common painkiller at the time, which was known to make you high if you over dosed. There were inferences that he probably used it every know and then since it was a common painkiller, but there still is no evidence that he ever abused Laudanum.
Dodgson was gifted and achievement came easy to him, even though he didn’t always work very hard. Due to Charles inability to apply his self to study he failed an important scholarship. The work bored Charles Dodgson, but the income was pretty good.

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Dodgson.html
http://domainhelp.search.com/reference/Lewis_Carroll
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/carroll/bio1.html