Lewis Carroll

Also known as Charles Dodgson, Lewis Caroll, Lewis Carroll Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), Rev. C. L. Dodgson, Charles L. Dodgson, Lewis Caroll Dodgson

British author and scholar (1832–1898)

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Lewis Carroll was a British author and mathematician best known for writing *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland*, a classic children's book that revolutionized children's literature with its imaginative storytelling and logical wordplay. His works continue to influence writers and artists today, and his ideas about narrative creativity remain important to how we understand modern fiction.

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Instance of: human
Family name: Carroll
Gender: male
Citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Place of birth: Daresbury
Father: Charles Dodgson
Occupation: autobiographer
Employer: University of Oxford
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: British English
Religion: Anglicanism
Participant in: Documenta 6
Field of work: inventor
Genre: social choice theory
Image: LewisCarrollSelfPhoto.jpg
Number of children: 0
Work location: England
Residence: England
Said to be same as: Jack the Ripper

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birth name: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Commons category: Lewis Carroll
Commons gallery: Lewis Carroll
date of birth: 1832-01-01
date of death: 1898-01-14
topic's main category: Category:Lewis Carroll
cause of death: pneumonia
Commons Creator page: Lewis Carroll
manner of death: natural causes
pseudonym: Lewis Carroll
name in native language: Lewis Carroll
medical condition: stuttering
ethnic group: English people
has works in the collection: J. Paul Getty Museum
writing language: English language
archives at: Harry Ransom Center
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
P8168: École nationale d'ingénieurs de Brest
start of work period: 1852-01-01
end of work period: 1898-01-01
handedness: left-handedness
P12674: Lee Jong-won

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Works in European collections

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Encyclopedic overview

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and reluctant Anglican deacon. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871), some of the most important examples of Victorian literature. He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. His poems Jabberwocky (1871) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. Some of Alice's nonsensical wonderland logic reflects his published work on mathematical logic.

Carroll came from a family of high-church Anglicans and pursued his clerical training at Christ Church, Oxford, where he lived for most of his life as a scholar, teacher and (necessarily for his academic fellowship at the time) Anglican deacon. Alice Liddell – a daughter of Henry Liddell, the Dean of Christ Church – is widely identified as the original inspiration for Alice in Wonderland, although Carroll always denied this.

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