Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) was the pen name of Charles Dodgson, an English author, poet and mathematician. He is best known for his two “Alice” books — Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871). His poetry, much of it incorporated into his Alice stories, exhibited an exuberance of word play and, like his fiction, often reflected Carroll’s sober study of logic as part of his work as a professor of mathematics at Oxford University. He is also known as an early pioneer in the art of photography: some of his surviving photos include pictures of Alice Liddell, on whom the eponymous character of his two most popular books was based.
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) was the pen name of Charles Dodgson, an English author, poet and mathematician. He is best known for his two “Alice” books — Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871). His poetry, much of it incorporated into his Alice stories, exhibited an exuberance of word play and, like his fiction, often reflected Carroll’s sober study of logic as part of his work as a professor of mathematics at Oxford University. He is also known as an early pioneer in the art of photography: some of his surviving photos include pictures of Alice Liddell, on whom the eponymous character of his two most popular books was based.
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