Lewis Carroll facts for kids
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

- 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

Images for kids
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The Jabberwock, as illustrated by John Tenniel for Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, including the poem "Jabberwocky".
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Reconstructed nyctograph, with scale demonstrated by a 5 euro cent.
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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.