Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an English writer, mathematician, and photographer. He was born on January 27, 1832, in Daresbury, Cheshire, England, and was the third of eleven children. His father was a country parson, and his mother was the daughter of a wealthy merchant. Carroll was a gifted mathematician and attended Oxford University, where he became a lecturer in mathematics. He was also an avid photographer and took many portraits of children, including Alice Liddell, the inspiration for his most famous work, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Carroll's first published work was a mathematical treatise called The Fifth Book of Euclid Treated Algebraically, which was published in 1860. However, he is best known for his children's books, which include Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Through the Looking-Glass (1871), and The Hunting of the Snark (1876). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland tells the story of a young girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole and enters a