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Lewis Carroll

English Project

By: Aman Singhal

Class: VI-B
Roll No. 1

Under the Supervision of Ms. Sangeeta Ekka

Lewis Carroll
A man of Maths & Science who also happened to
write poems!!!

Dodgson
27 January 1832 14 January
1898)

Pen name,Lewis Carroll

He was anEnglish writer,mathematician,logician,Anglican deacon, andphotographer.

His most famous writings areAlice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequelThrough the
Looking-Glass, which includes the poemJabberwocky, and the poem-The Hunting of the
Snark, all examples of the genre ofliterary nonsense.

He is noted for his facility atword play, logic, and fantasy.

There are societies in many parts of the world dedicated to the enjoyment and
promotion of his works and the investigation of his life.

From a young age Carroll wrote poetry and short stories that he would send to
magazines.

These magazine companies would publish his work and he loved believing he was
famous.

Story behind his name

In 1856 he published his first piece of work under the name that would
make him famous. A romantic poem called "Solitude" appeared inThe
Trainunder the authorship of "Lewis Carroll".

The transition of his name went as follows: "Charles Lutwidge" translated


into Latin as "Carolus Ludovicus". This was then translated back into
English as "Carroll Lewis" and then reversed to make "Lewis Carroll".

This pseudonym was chosen by editor Edmund Yates from a list of four
submitted by Dodgson; the others being Edgar Cuthwellis, Edgar U. C.
Westhill and Louis Carroll

Carrolls Childhood

Carroll was born in the little parsonage of Daresbury in Cheshire.


He was the third child of eleven siblings.

Lewis moved with his family to the spacious Rectory at the age
of 11 and lived there for 25 years.

At the age of 12 he went to a small private school in Richmond.

In 1851 Lewis went to Oxford (His fathers old college).

After his experiences in Oxford he went off in the world and did
his own thing.

He wrote books, poems, and inspired a lot of people. On the side


he was a photographer and a math professor.

Antecedents
Lewis

Carrolls family was predominantly northern English, with Irish

connections.
His

family was conservative andHigh ChurchAnglican, most of his male

ancestors were army officers orChurch of Englandclergy.


Great-grandfatherPaternal
Father

Charles Dodgson, was theBishop of Elphin.

grandfather -Charles, was an army captain.

-Charles Dodgson was mathematically gifted and won adouble

firstdegree, which could have been the prelude to a brilliant academic


career.
Mother
Lewis

-Frances Jane Lutwidge

Carroll was the third child but the eldest boy.

Education
Home life

In early youth, he was educated at home.

At the age of seven he readThe Pilgrim's Progress.

He suffered from stammer a condition shared by most of his siblings.

At the age of twelve he was sent to Richmond Grammar School

Rugby

In 1846, Dodgson enteredRugby Schoolwhere he was evidently


unhappy, as he wrote some years after leaving:

His excellence in mathematics was observed by master R. B. Mayor.

Education
Oxford

He left Rugby at the end of 1849 andmatriculatedat Oxford in May 1850.

His mother had died of "inflammation of the brain" perhapsmeningitisor a


stroke at the age of forty-seven.

His early academic career veered between high promise and irresistible
distraction.

He did not always work hard, but was exceptionally gifted and achievement came
easily to him. In 1852 he obtainedfirst-class honoursin
MathematicsModerations, and was shortly thereafter nominated to
aStudentship.

His talent as a mathematician won him the Christ Church Mathematical


Lectureship in 1855,which he continued to hold for the next twenty-six years.

Carrolls Work

From a young age, Dodgson wrote poetry and short stories, both contributing heavily to the family
magazineMishmash and later sending them to various magazines, enjoying moderate success.

Between 1854 and 1856, his work appeared in the national publications,The Comic TimesandThe
Train, as well as smaller magazines like theWhitby Gazetteand theOxford Critic. Most of this
output was humorous and satirical.

After 1850, he wrote apuppetplays for his siblings' entertainment, of which one has survived:La
Guida di Bragia.

In 1856 he published his first piece of work under the name that would make him famous. A
romantic poem called "Solitude" appeared inThe Trainunder the authorship of "Lewis Carroll".

Alicebooks

In 1856, Henry Liddell, arrived atChrist Church, with his family, which influenced Dodgson's life and his writing
career. Dodgson became close friends with Liddell's wife & his children, particularly Alice Liddell.

He was for many years widely assumed to have derived his own "Alice" fromAlice Liddell: theacrosticpoem at
the end ofThrough the Looking Glassspells out her name in full.

It has been noted that Dodgson himself repeatedly denied in later life that his "little heroine" was based on any
real child.

On 4 July 1862, Dodgson invented the outline of the story that eventually became his first and greatest
commercial success. Dodgson eventually presented Alice with a handwritten, illustrated manuscript
entitledAlice's Adventures Under Groundin November 1864.

In 1863, he had taken the unfinished manuscript to Macmillan (publisher), who liked it immediately. After the
possible alternative titlesAlice Among the FairiesandAlice's Golden Hourwere rejected, the work was finally
published asAlice's Adventures in Wonderlandin 1865 under the Lewis Carroll pen-name, which Dodgson had
first used some nine years earlier.

The overwhelming commercial success of the first Alice book changed Dodgson's life in many ways.

Late in 1871, a sequel Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There was published. Its somewhat
darker mood possibly reflects the changes in Dodgson's life.

Some Important Works

The Principles of Parliamentary Representation(1884)

Literary works
La Guida di Bragia, a Ballad Opera for the Marionette Theatre(around 1850), A
Tangled Tale, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(1865), Facts, Rhyme? And
Reason?, Pillow Problems, Sylvie and Bruno, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, The
Hunting of the Snark(1876), Three Sunsets and Other Poems(1898), Through
the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There(includes "Jabberwocky" and
"The Walrus and the Carpenter") (1871), What the Tortoise Said to
Achilles(1895)
Mathematical works
A Syllabus of Plane Algebraic Geometry(1860), The Fifth Book of Euclid Treated
Algebraically(1858 and 1868), An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, With
Their Application to Simultaneous Linear Equations and Algebraic Equations,
Euclid and his Modern Rivals(1879), both literary and mathematical in style,
Symbolic Logic Part I, Symbolic Logic Part II(published posthumously), The
Alphabet Cipher(1868), The Game of Logic(1887), Curiosa Mathematica
I(1888), Curiosa Mathematica II(1892), The Theory of Committees and
Elections, collected, edited, analysed, and published in 1958, by Duncan Black
Other works
Some Popular Fallacies about Vivisection, Eight or Nine Wise Words About LetterWriting

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