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Who is Lewis Carroll?

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Who is Lewis Carroll?

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Lewis Carroll (1832 – 1898) is the pen name of Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an English author, mathematician, and photographer of the Victorian era. He is best known for his children’s books including Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Carroll was also an eminent photographer during his lifetime – one of the first to pursue the new art form – and considered one of the best of his era to this day. Carroll was born on 27 January 1832 in Cheshire to an Anglican parson, one of a long line of clergymen and army officials. He was the oldest son in a family of 11, with two older sisters. In 1843, the family moved to a large Rectory in Yorkshire. Carroll began school the next year, and he attended Rugby School beginning in 1845. In 1851, Carroll began his university career at Christ Church, Oxford, his father’s school. Tragically, his mother died only two days into his career at Oxford. Carroll won the Christ Church Mathematical Lectureship in 1855 as a resul

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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer.

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