Lewis Carroll facts for kids

Lewis Carroll in 1856, self-portrait

Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Daresbury, Cheshire, 27 January 1832 – Guildford, Surrey, 14 January 1898). Dodgson was an Oxford don, a logician (mathematics expert), a writer, a poet, an Anglican clergyman, and a photographer.

He is most famous for his story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland which he told to a young friend, Alice Liddell, when he took the girl and two sisters on a boat trip. Alice enjoyed the story and asked Dodgson to write it down. Carroll then wrote a second story about Alice called Through the Looking-Glass. Both stories are still popular all over the world.

Dodgson was a Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford, specialising in logic and mathematics. He wrote a number of books and pamphlets on the subject. He died of pneumonia in Guildford, Surrey.

Works

"The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo". Illustration by John Tenniel, 1865.

La Guida di Bragia, a ballad opera for the marionette theatre (around 1850)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
Phantasmagoria, and other poems (1869). A collection of poems.
Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice found there (includes "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter") (1871)
Pillow Problems
The Hunting of the Snark (1876)
Rhyme? and Reason? (1883) A collection of poems, including Phantasmagoria and The Hunting of the Snark
A Tangled Tale (1886)
Sylvie and Bruno (1889)
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893)
Three Sunsets and other poems
What the Tortoise said to Achilles (1895)
A syllabus of Plane Algebraic Geometry (1860)
The Fifth Book of Euclid treated algebraically (1858 and 1868)
The Alphabet Cipher.
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 Game of Logic
Some popular fallacies about vivisection
Curiosa Mathematica I (1888)
Curiosa Mathematica II (1892)
The Theory of Committees and Elections, collected, edited, analyzed, and published in 1958, by Duncan Black

Posthumous portrait by Herkhomer

Images for kids

Lewis Carroll
1863 photograph by Oscar G. Rejlander
One of Carroll's own illustrations
The Jabberwock, as illustrated by John Tenniel for Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, including the poem "Jabberwocky".
Photo of Alice Liddell taken by Lewis Carroll (1858)
Reconstructed nyctograph, with scale demonstrated by a 5 euro cent.
A posthumous portrait of Lewis Carroll by Hubert von Herkomer, based on photographs. This painting now hangs in the Great Hall of Christ Church, Oxford.
The grave of Lewis Carroll at the Mount Cemetery
The "cut pages in diary" document, in the Dodgson family archive in Woking