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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Charles Lutwidge Dogson
“Lewis Carroll”



(Lewis Carroll)

Charles Lutwidge Dogson “Lewis Carroll” life began on January 27, 1832. He was best known as an English author as well as a mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman, and a photographer. Lewis Carroll was the oldest male child, while having two older sisters, five younger sisters and three younger brothers. He was home school up until the age of twelve which he was sent away to a small private school. It is rumored that he was naturally left handed and that he suffered severe psychological trauma by being forced to counteract this tendency. Although there is no evidence to prove this claim. In 1845 Charles moved on from home school to Rugby School. Where it is evident that he was less happy. He left Rugby at the end of 1850. Then there is a time period which is left unexplained, then went to Oxford in January 1851. Where attended the same college as his father, Christ Church. He had only been there for two days before being summoned home to his mother who had died. It is believed that she had died of inflammation of the brain. This death did not distract him from his schooling at Oxford. He was exceptionally gifted and achievement came easily without effort sometimes. The next year he received a first in Honor Moderations, shortly after that he was nominated to a Studentship by his father’s old friend Canon Edward Pusey. In his early academic career veered between high promise and unavoidable distraction. A little later he failed to get an important scholarship because of his laziness. Even so, his talent as a mathematician won him the Christ Church Mathematical Lectureship which he continued to hold for the next twenty-six years. The income was good but the work bored him. Many of his pupils were older and richer than he was and almost all of them were uninterested. Despite early unhappiness, Dodgson was to remain at Christ Church, in various capacities, until his death.

A characteristic that Lewis was recognized by was his stammer, or hesitation (which is what he called it). This was a condition shared by his siblings. It often influenced his social life throughout his life. Some believe that Lewis Carroll only stammered in adult company and never did when with children; however there is no evidence to support this idea. While many children that met him remembered the stammer that he had supposedly did not do with children. When many adults apparently failed to notice it. The stammer came and went on its own.

Another characteristic of Lewis Carroll was his personality. He was a rather forward and tried to relish attention and admiration. He was equipped rather well to entertain. He was a decent singer and was never afraid to do so in front of an audience. He had a talent for mimicry, and story telling. This is obvious due to the fact he wrote books for a living. By a good reputation he was a good charade player.


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Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll was born as Charles Lutwidge Dodgson on January 27, 1832 in the town of Warrington Cheshire. When he was born he was the third child of his parent’s four and a half year marriage. During his young life he was educated at home and his vast intellect of his early age was preserved by his parent’s record of books that he had read. His social life was disturbed by his stammering condition stifling his self confidence. At the age of twelve his parents sent him to a private school in a nearby town. After his stay there he continued his academic carrier and attended Rugby School. At the end of the 1849 he left Rugby School and took a break before going to Oxford in January of 1851 to enroll in Christ Church, his father’s former college, but right after his arrival there he left for home after being summonsed because his mother had died of “inflammation of the brain”. (wikipedia.com)

During his younger years he wrote short stories and poems that he often submitted to magazines, from these works of literature he enjoyed fairly good success. He first submitted a romantic poem in 1856 to “The Train” under the pen name Lewis Carroll which is actually a pseudonym of his real name. His most famous literature work was the book “Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland”. (wikepedia.com)

The story of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, was first told to the daughter of the dean at Christ Church, Alice Liddell, who many believe is the “Alice” in Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland which Carroll strongly denied throughout his life. It is fairly clear through his library of diaries that he was in close friendship with the Liddell family and spent many hours spent with the children, mostly taking them on rowing trips. During one of these adventures is when he designed the story line of his future success. It was actually another family friend who persuaded Carroll to seek publication and ensure his named stamped in history. (wikipedia.com)

Besides being an avid writer and storyteller Carroll was also a photographer. His favorite subject according to remaining pictures was of young girls. The girl he used as his subject the most was Alexandra Kitchin, there are over fifty surviving prints of her all being taken between 1869 and 1880 the last being taken before her sixteenth birthday, because of his photographic, and social interest in young girls many people today view him as a pedophile, but during the Victorian time period it was not uncommon for girls to be married by the time they where fifteen to men much older than them because of the number of prints depicting young children in various states of dress most about 2/3’s of all of his photographs have been lost, destroyed by time, or intentionally destroyed by his family to protect the family name. Today he is recognized as one of the top Victorian Artists in the world. (wikipedia.com)

Because of Carroll’s “unconventional” friendships with young women and frequent vacations and time spent alone in his apartment at Christ Church rumors became rampant about his relationship with these young women. These rumors cause Carroll much distress and some hypothesize that these where the reasons for him to leave photography. (www.lewiscarroll.cc)


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On January 27, 1832, a future English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman, and photographer named Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born to this earth. Dodgson was better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll. Dodgson was born in Warrington, Cheshire. Dodgson’s father was given the living of Croft-on-Tees in North Yorkshire when Dodgson was 11 years of age. After his father was given that, the whole family moved to a spacious rectory. As a young man, Dodgson suffered from a stammer. A stammer is an affliction shared by his siblings that influenced his social life most of his years. Dodgson went to a small private school in nearby Richmond when he was at the age of 12. When Dodgson was still young he moved to a Rugby School where he was less happy at rather than the Richmond School. (Wikipedia)

Charles Dodgson as a young adult was about 6 feet, very slim, and handsome. Dodgson was described to have curly brown hair and blue eyes. Later on in his life, Dodgson was described to walk stiffly and very awkward like as if he had a knee injury. When Dodgson was only 17 years old he suffered from a case of whooping cough, which was how he came to have bad hearing in his right ear. He also had a very weak chest which was also caused by his case of whooping cough. (Wikipedia)

By modern perspective, Dodgson was a snob. Dodgson was also socially ambitious. He was very anxious to make a statement of him being a writer and an artist. From Dodgson’s young age he wrote poetry and short stories. He sent most of his work to various magazines while he enjoyed his success. Between 1854 and 1856 Dodgson’s work had appeared in many national publications such as The Comic Times and The Train as well as some smaller magazines like the Whitby Gazette and the Oxford Critic. Most of his creations were humorous, but his standards and ambitions were exacting. Dodgson quoted in July of 1855 “I do not think I have yet written anything worthy of real publication, in which I do not include the Whitby Gazette or the Oxonian Advertiser, but I do not despair of doing so some day.” (Wikipedia)

Many were many rumors and stories of Dodgson doing recreational drugs. There was never any proof in his diaries or journals that Dodgson took in recreational drugs. In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland there were a few different uses of drugs but there was never any proof that Dodgson consumed recreational drugs. (Drug Reference)

Dodgson was very technical about things and had great ideas about how to solve technical problems. He was able to do so through his camera, which was not as user friendly as today’s modern cameras. He created Nyctography and a tool called the Nyctograph. This was invented by Dodgson for the reason of not being able to sleep at night because he wanted to write down all of his thoughts. (Biblio.com)

Lewis Carroll’s most famous work to this day was Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is still read to this day. Lewis Carroll made history.

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Lewis Carroll… Man or Monster you ask. Well I will inform you of the answer to this in the next assortment of paragraphs, ranging from his alleged drug use to his alleged pedophilia. Lewis Carroll was a real person but then again he was not. Lewis Carroll is a pseudonym for the name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Charles Dodgson was born on January 27, 1832 at Daresbury, Cheshire where his father Charles was a vicar or priest if you would prefer. Young Charles attended Richmond Grammar School in Yorkshire when he turned 12 years old. In his childhood Charles had a stammer, or more of a stutter.
Even though the stammer is only a conception people have made over the years about Charles it seems he would only have this so called stammer in the company of adults. In every biography you read or anything you hear, not one time does it mention a time when he would stammer when he was working with kids, would it reading to them, photographing them or just being in there presence. From this statement I myself concur that he was fond of children. Charles himself does say that he is fond of children but it becomes more evident not only from this but that his favorite type of photography was of young children. Even some were of children posing nude. After hearing this, a question of pedophilia arises to people’s minds. Was he a little too fond of young children? After reading four separate biographies on him I would say that yes he was a so called pedophile. But not in a physical way at all though, he seems like more of the type that simply liked to look. He was not physical or more so sadist if you will call it toward young children. I know there are many people even the readers of this among them that will not agree with my statements and conceptions of Charles as a pedophile, but just read what everyone has to say about him. If he was indeed not a pedophile, we can still accede that he was truly troubled with problems of his mind. Not only because of the types of photography he specialized in and liked doing, but from his writings and the overall nonsense of his pieces of work.
Throughout his life he wrote many stories and books. One of which I will use to aide in my opinions is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. All throughout this piece of work by Lewis, nothing makes sense. All that is said is nonsense making it seem he had some kind of help in thinking of these images. This brings us to Dodgson’s professed use of drugs or mind-altering substances. If you look at the effects that the drugs of his time have on the body and mind, it seems to coincide with his writings. Opium and Hash were both very popular in Lewis’s time, and he would have had them readily available because there were no laws against these at the time. I am not saying he did use these mind-altering drugs but that it is something that we will never know. This is because even though his pieces of work are nonsense, it all goes together and flows perfectly making it basically too nonsensical to be coming from the effects of a drug. Also his condition that he had or the Alice in Wonderland syndrome as it is called. This condition could be a sure cause of all this flowing nonsense he rights about because of the affects it has on ones head. Lilliputian hallucination is the scientific name for this syndrome in which the person has very severe migraine like headaches. With these migraines one will usually hallucinate or see things that are not there, further showing another reason for his creative writings. Also with these hallucinations, psychiatrists say that one will see things shrink and also grow taller just like he described in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Now none of these accusations of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson will probably ever be proven.
One reason that these statements may never be proven is the fact that out of his journals/diaries, there are several missing that go from 1853 to 1863. Within these pages there could be facts about him that would further open up everything about his life that we do not know for sure. Many think that his family is the ones that caused these diaries to disappear for the sole purpose of conserving his reputation and keeping his good name alive and not have him go down in history to everyone as some pedophilic drug user. As this comes to an end, we can all make many accusations against Charles or praises for whatever reason we see fit but we may never know for sure.

The title of our assignment and my essay is “Lewis Carroll-man or monster, but the title of our assignment makes no sense. Lewis Carroll is neither man nor monster; he’s a pseudonym! Lewis Carroll has never existed, but his creator Charles Lutwidge Dodgson did.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born January 27, 1832. While he was he oldest son, he was only the third of eleven. It was assumed that here, while inventing game to entertain his siblings, he developed his ability to create children’s stories. He was a very smart student, earning first-class honors in mathematics and second-class in classics at Oxford University. In 1861 he was ordained a Deacon of the Church of England. As a Deacon of the Church of England he had to remain celibate, which probably helped shed a false image of him.
In 1855 his life was completely changed, he found his two passions in life: photography and writing (though some say little girls was his third passion). He excelled at photography and was considered a premier photographer of his time. He took pictures of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and other famous people.
In 1855 he also met the Liddell’s. It started with the oldest son Harry and later Dodgson went on picnics with Harry and his younger sister Ina. After Harry went to school, Alice, the middle daughter, and Edith, the youngest Liddell, joined Dodgson on his picnics. It was here on a boating trip that Alice asked Dodgson to write down a story detailing the adventures of the “Alice” in Dodgson’s stories. It took a few years, but he did publish the manuscript in 1864 titled “Alice’s Adventures Underground”. Eventually that manuscript became “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” Dodgson or Carroll, if you prefer, dedicated the book and its sequel to Alice Liddell.
Then in 1863 something else happened to Dodgson, Mrs. Liddell asked him to stop coming or he just decided not to come around the Liddells any more. There are many speculations on the reasons. One is that Mrs. Liddell heard gossip about Dodgson and the Liddell governess, and or Ina. Ina was the name of both Mrs. Liddell and the oldest Liddell daughter. Another was that Dodgson wanted the sexual attractions of Alice. And yet a third was that nothing wrong happened, but that Mrs. Liddell just felt it awkward having her daughter(s) hanging around with a grown man.
In any case this “break” with the Liddell family was heavily speculated on by biographers after Dodgson’s death. This was used as “evidence” against Dodgson along with his few remaining photograph and a lot of jumping to conclusions (guesses). One man, Morton N. Cohen, was a biographer that strongly stated that Dodgson loved little girls in a sexual manner, but was repressed sexually and the he remained celibate. Others, like Langford Reed said that he stopped paying attention to the girls when the turned fourteen, but completely for pure reasons, untainted by sexual desires. Either way no one will know for sure about Dodgson’s life because his journal has had pages of it torn out and only one thousand of his original three thousand photographs have survived due to time and intentional destruction.



Since no one knows exactly the details of Dodgson’s, it will always be a matter of speculation but never really proven how he really lived. Though to support the pedophilia charges he was thought to have taken nude and semi-nude photos of girls. Keep in mind that a lot of people did that back then. He also wrote in his journal of having some heavy guilt and being a sinner, but hey everyone has guilt. He was also, by some accounts, very reserved and cold towards women. By other accounts however, it was speculated that not only was he social able toward women, but that he possibly had quite a few affairs with adult women, some of whom were married. Like I said before, no one will ever really know the truth of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.
Regardless of his sexual life, Charles Dodgson wrote quite a few books, most of which were not popular, but three were: “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, “Through the looking glass and what Alice found there”, and unrelated to Alice, “The hunting of the Snark: an agony of eight fits”. With the proceeds of all his books he supported his six unmarried sisters and paid for various relative’s education.
In the 1880’s Dodgson had retired from social life. In 1880 Dodgson abandoned photography and in 1881 he resigned his lectureship in math. His books during this time period were alright but they never achieved anywhere near the success of his top three. Dodgson died at one of his sisters’ house January 14, 1848 of a bronchial infection. The same year that he died, Alice Liddell, now Alice Liddell Hargreaves, sold the manuscript “Alice’s Adventures Underground” for 15,400 pounds (about 77,000 pounds today). I guess that she really just didn’t care about the old guy after he died.


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http://www.bookrags.com/biography/lewis-carroll-dlb3/

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

http://www.online-literature.com/carroll/

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/carroll/bio1.html

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/carroll/dreamchild/dreamchild1.html

Lewis Carroll was an educated and from time to time respected author, mathematician and photographer. He was born on January 27th 1832, and passed on January 14th 1898. His true name was not Lewis Carroll; this was merely a pseudonym he used in many of his books. His true name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Like many of the century’s “great” authors he was born to an upper middle class family with close ties to the church. He went to many wealthy schools of the time including Oxford and Westminster and was well known to be mathematically brilliant. However after his schooling he married his cousin and disappeared for a while into obscurity. Soon though he became to grow socially anxious and hopeful to make his mark in the world in some way.
Early in his life after Oxford he became interested in a new form of art, and this is where allot of his modernly controversial trouble began. One of his most popular subjects of imagery in photography was very young girls (and as I found inadvertently but warned in a Google search) these photos were….creepy. Now as I digress from my historical point of view I am going to go into opinion. Regardless of whether the persecutions were right, false or made up I believe that the facts of which stand will never be known and cannot truly be judged. Maybe he never done anything and was wrongfully accused by a church that is often believed by historians to have been corrupt. Or maybe he was an evil screwed up psychiatrically damaged individual the facts of which can never be known or verified.
Now further on to a different and slightly less disturbing part of his life. I stated in a post at the beginning of this year that I believed him to be on opium. And to be perfectly honest I still believe this theory to be true. However though I had digressed away from this for the reasons of keeping an open mind, but I almost laughed when I saw a photograph of him and thought he looked stoned. Then realized, oh wait this is the author I had accused earlier this quarter of being drug abusing and psychologically destroyed.


According to many biography’s on Lewis he was extraordinary lazy and even though he was very brilliant, he often did not achieve nearly as much as he possibly could have. Even considering these things he was extremely successful in his achievements. He wrote several books including “The Hunting of The Snark” and “Sylvie and Bruno” however none of these came close to the fame and legendary reach of “Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland”. My personal beliefs are that Lewis’ reasoning for writing so many children’s books falls back upon his current accused horrific tendencies and his more historically proven references to a rough childhood. He has been known to refer to several “annoyances” that occurred to him as a child at night. Current historians do not, and truly cannot know exactly what these “annoyances” were. They could have possibly been references to childhood sexual abuse or they may have been evidence to something much less severe that we are currently aware of. However two things tend to come into our consideration when his past comes into question. For one if he was abused as a child it could certainly explain his fascination with the child mind in his stories, and with his accused acts with photography. However this could also be a falsely logic induced, but not historically backed source of evidence to the current strike to attempt and discredit Lewis as a non-disturbed individual innocent of the consciously wrong and disturbing crimes he was accused of. And if this is the case then the idea of his childhood of molestation, as with the accusations of his creepy photography, are possibly false. It is much easier in truth to accuse someone hundreds of years after their death than it is to defend them.

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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.

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Lewis Carroll better known as Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was famous for writing Alice in Wonderland. Carroll wrote many books, including a sequel to Alice in Wonderland, called Through the Looking- Glass. Carroll has not only written nonsense into books, he has also written the comic poem, "The Hunting of the Snark", and a nonsense poem "Jabberwocky". Carroll's inspiration was from little girls. He also took pictures of little girls, but was believed that his family destroyed all the things that Carroll did, that would destroy his reputation. Carrolls writing styles have delighted audiences from a range of all ages, from little kids to older adults. Carroll's books influenced a few 20th century writers such as James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges.

Dodgson family was mainly northern English, with some Irish connections, conservative and High Church Anglican, most of Dodgson's ancestors belonged to the two traditional English upper-middle class professions: the army and the Church. Carroll great-grandfather, also Charles Dodgson, had risen through the ranks of the church to become a bishop. The other Charles also named Charles Dodgson was in the army, rank captain, but was killed in the war, 1803. Charles had two sons; they were hardly older than babies were. The oldest of all the Charles, reverted to the other family business, took holy orders; and he published some sermons, translated Tertullian, it is also believe that he went to Westminster School. Charles was mathematically gifted, even could have pursued a brilliant academic career, but Charles decided to marry his first cousin, and retired into obscurity as a country parson.

Carroll was born in a church house, in the town of Daresbury, and he was the oldest boy out of eleven brothers and sisters. He grew out of his childhood into a bright, articulate boy. Young Carroll was home schooled for his education. He was limited on his reading, his choices was family testify to a precocious intellect. When he was seven the gifted Carroll was reading The Pilgrim’s Progress. There is consideration that he was naturally left-handed and suffered severe psychological trauma by being forced to work against this tendency. The sad thing about this question is his family “destroyed” all of the incriminating evidences that might have been bad for his career. On Carroll 12TH birthday, he was sent away to a small private school near Richmond, it was told that he was happy there. However, when he left to Rugby School, it was a lot less fun for him. After five long years in Rugby School, he lifted for Oxford, where his college was located at, and it was told that his father went to the same college. Christ Church was the college’s name, as Carroll arrived, he got a letter that informs him that is mother died. It is believe that the cause of her deaf, was by a stroke or something to do with the brain. His mother died at the age of 47, not bad for having a ton of kids, and raising them all.

Carroll took up photography, so he would be able to combine the ideals of his sick mind, and his perverted ways. He used his mastery of photography to take pictures of little girls or subjects, with out shame or guilt. "Dodgson soon excelled at the art, and it became an expression of his very personal inner philosophy. A belief in the divinity of what he called beauty, by which he seemed to mean a state of moral or aesthetic or physical perfection, in the human form; in the body-images that moved him.” (qut. Biblio) His number one model was Alexandra Kitchin, whom he photographed around 50 times from the age of four until the age of about sixteen. He took pictures of Alexandra in a bath dress at the age of sixteen. He took pictures of many girls but about one third has survived sense 1880. They were long presumed lost, but six nudes have since surfaced, four of which have been published and another two are not known as will.

http://www.biblio.com/authors/610/Lewis_Carroll_Biography.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll
http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/alice8.html

A knave is a prince. His responsibilities is to be on duties. All the evidence in the story is coming from prople in Alice's dream world. Alice's sister was not dreaming the same dream as Alice, because when Alice fell asleep her sister was reading a book. The rabbit has a horn because he is the one who blows it at the trial. The mad Hatter was on trial because he took the Queens crumpets. They want Alice to leave because she is tearing things up as she grows taller.

A lobster-Quadrille is a dance. The dance is performed in two lines along side of the sea shore, after all the jelly-fish have been removed. They are singing the first of the lobster quadrille and the figure also means the dance. The Mock Turtle is crying because he is upset that he cant understand Alice. The Mock Turtle and the Gryphon argueing over a adance because they were addind parts to each others stories.

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)

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

Lewis Carroll - Man or Monster?

We are winding down on the AAIW unit in ths class. All of you have shown some remarkable improvement with not only your writing, but also your ability to question, infer, and analyze. For the last assignment regarding AAIW we look to the author.

Some would say Carroll is a rather sordid man, but the evidence appears somewhat shaky. You will research Carroll and discover at least three things that are common in most of his biographies. You will need to look at multiple websites to discover these commonalities.

I have posted several links in the links section. Your post needs have the following:

1. 700+ words
2. A picture that depicts Carrol or something related to him. Nothing from AAIW is allowed.
   
3. Three things that describe Carroll
4. Summary of your opinion of Carroll based on facts you have read.
5. Citations of sources at the bottom of your post.

This assignment is worth 100 points. I will grade as follows:

40 pts. - content
30 pts. - grammar and spelling
30 pts. - comments to other posts

Comments will be evaluated upon the following:

1. Quality- Does the comment require a response?
   
2. Depth - Does the comment actually say or ask something?
3. Response - Do you respond to comments made to your comments or posts?

I am really looking for more discussion through the comments for this assignment. One sentence comments like "Your reasoning sounds good to me" are not the sort of comments I want to see or will consider for your grade.

You have two days to complete this assignment so get cracking!