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DODGSON, CHARLES LUTWIDGE

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 370 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DODGSON, See also:CHARLES LUTWIDGE [" See also:LEWIS See also:CARROLL "J (1832–1898), See also:English mathematician and author, son of the Rev. Charles Dodgson, See also:vicar of Daresbury, See also:Cheshire, was See also:born in that See also:village on the 27th of See also:January 1832. The See also:literary See also:life of " Lewis Carroll " became See also:familiar to a wide circle of readers, but the private life of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was retired and practically uneventful. After four years' schooling at See also:Rugby, Dodgson matriculated at See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, in May 1850; and from 1852 till 187o held a studentship there. He took a first class in the final mathematical school in 1854, and the following See also:year was appointed mathematical lecturer at Christ Church, a See also:post he continued to fill till 1881. In 1861 he was ordained See also:deacon, but he never took See also:priest's orders, possibly because of a stammer which prevented See also:reading aloud. His earliest publications, beginning with A See also:Syllabus of See also:Plane Algebraical See also:Geometry (1860) and The Formulae of Plane See also:Trigonometry (1861), were exclusively mathematical; but See also:late in the year 1865 he published, under the See also:pseudonym of " Lewis Carroll," Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a See also:work that was the outcome of his keen sympathy with the See also:imagination of See also:children and their sense of fun. Its success was immediate, and the name of " Lewis Carroll " has ever since been a See also:household word. A dramatic version of the " Alice " books by Mr See also:Savile See also:Clarke was produced at See also:Christmas, 1886, and has since enjoyed many revivals. Mr Dodgson was always very fond of children, and it was an open See also:secret that the See also:original of " Alice " was a daughter of See also:Dean See also:Liddell. Alice was followed (in the " Lewis Carroll " See also:series) by See also:Phantasmagoria, in 1869; Through the Looking-See also:Glass, in 1871; The See also:Hunting of the Snark (1876); See also:Rhyme and See also:Reason (1883); A Tangled See also:Tale (1885); and Sylvie and See also:Bruno (in two parts, 1889 and 1893). He wrote skits on Oxford subjects from See also:time to time.

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Dynamics of a Particle was written on the occasion of the contest between See also:Gladstone and Mr Gathorne See also:Hardy (afterwards See also:earl of See also:Cranbrook); and The New See also:Belfry in ridicule of the erection put up at Christ Church for the bells that were removed from the See also:Cathedral See also:tower. While " Lewis Carroll " was delighting children of all ages, C. L. Dodgson periodically published mathematical works—An Elementary See also:Treatise on Determinants (1867) 1 See also:Euclid, See also:Book proved Algebraically (1874); Euclid. and his See also:Modern Rivals (1879), the work on which his reputation as a mathematician largely rests; and Curiosa •Mathematica (1888). Throughout this dual existence Mr Dodgson pertinaciously refused to acquiesce in being publicly identified with " Lewis Carroll." Though the fact of his authorship of the " Alice " books was well known, he invariably stated, when occasion called for such a pronouncement, that " Mr Dodgson neither claimed nor acknowledged any connexion with the books hot published under his name." He died at See also:Guildford, on the 14th of January 1898. His memory is appropriately kept See also:green by a cot in the Children's See also:Hospital, See also:Great See also:Ormond See also:Street, See also:London, which was endowed perpetually by a public subscription. See S. D. See also:Collingwood, Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898).

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