Lewis Carroll Summary

Carroll, Lewis British Mathematician, Writer, and Photographer 1832–1898 Lewis Carroll is the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who was born in Darebury, England, in 1832 and died in Guildf... Read more

Carroll, Lewis(1832–1898) Lewis Carroll is the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. The eldest son of a large clerical family, he was born at Daresbury, Cheshire, was educated at Rugby School,... Read more

Biography EssayLewis Carroll (the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was a Victorian nonsense writer for children whose works hold enduring fascination for adults as well. His Alice's Adventures in W... Read more

Charles Dodgson was the oldest of eleven children in a parish priest 's family. Every member of the Dodgson family stammered including Charles, who was also intensely shy, but these impediments did no... Read more

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was an author, mathematician, teacher, and photographer who is described by Roger Lancelyn Green in Twentieth Century Children's Writers as "probably the most quoted author in... Read more

Self-effacing, yet having an expressive critical ability; reveling in the possibilities of fancy, though thoroughly at home with the sophisticated nuances of logic and mathematics, Lewis Carroll (Char... Read more

In the following excerpt, Wilson argues for a serious critical approach to Carroll's work. … If Dodgson and his work were shown as an organic whole, his "nonsense" would... Read more

In the following excerpt, Greenacre discusses nonsense and aggression as they are manifested in the works of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. This paper will deal with nonsense and its relation to ag... Read more

In the following excerpt, Bratton argues that Carroll's work has origins in the Victorian Popular Ballad form. …. By the middle of the [nineteenth] century the comic ballad world was ... Read more

In the following essay, Polhemus explores Carroll's representation of children, suggesting that the idea of using children as subjects in fiction was just emerging when the Alice books were pub... Read more

In the following essay, Miller maintains that Carroll's two novels aimed at adult readers are constructed according to a highly organized plan and conform to many of the conventions associated ... Read more

In the following essay, originally published in 1984, Cohen discusses Dodgson's views on higher education for women and his personal contributions to the education of women and girls in mathema... Read more