Lewis Carroll is actually a pseudonym, the pen name taken by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Although best known for his children's books, Dodgson worked professionally as a mathematician, studying particularly recreational logic, determinants, geometry and...

The English cleric Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), who wrote under the name Lewis Carroll, was the author of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. He was also a noted mathematician and photographer. Born on Jan. 27, 1832, Lewis...

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 not hinder him from developing a talent for...

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, and entered Christ Church, Oxford, in 1850. On...

Carroll, Lewis [addendum] The success of the Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Cohen, Morton N. Lewis Carroll. A Biography. New York: Knopf,...

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 Guildford, England, in 1898. He taught mathematics at Christ Church...

Carroll The contributions of Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson, 1832–1898) to logic consist of several pieces published between 1887 and 1899. The Game of Logic (London, 1887) is a book written for young people to teach them to reason logically...

His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense. His facility at word...

Mary Ellen Solt, who used letter and word arrangements to enhance the meaning of a poem and was a leader in the "concrete poetry" movement, has died. She was 86.Solt died June 21 in Santa Clarita after a stroke, her family said.Her most popular work,...

Slam poetry got a fresh twist when three Victorian-era re-enactors read from such poets as William Wordsworth and Emily Dickinson in a setting that was fitting for the event _ a 19th-century stone mansion.Actor Craig Johnson, wearing a gray frock coat typical of the period,...

It's outrageous at times, boring at others, masterfully melodic in parts and deafeningly discordant elsewhere. And at just under two hours, "Alice in Wonderland" is 30 minutes too long.This piece, which had its world premiere on June 30 at the Bavarian State Opera, is unlikely...

Media Mob special Washington correspondent Chris Shott reports: As reporters jockeyed for the few remaining seats in U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan's packed Washington courtroom, Brian Bennett offered up his excuse to cut in line."I'm from Time magazine, the defendant," Bennett told security officers....

In the following excerpt, Kelly discusses Carroll's poetry, maintaining that his serious verse is of poor quality, while his humorous verse is brilliant.

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 published.

In the following essay, Schwab considers Carroll's experimental treatment of language, maintaining that his work anticipates the twentieth-century movements of surrealism, modernism, and postmodernism.