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Encyclopedia Articles (4)

Carroll, Lewis

326 words, approx. 2 pages

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

574 words, approx. 2 pages

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... Read more

Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898)

1,512 words, approx. 6 pages

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

Carroll, Lewis [addendum]

653 words, approx. 3 pages

Carroll, Lewis [addendum] The success of the "Alice" books established Charles L. Dodgson's reputation as a gifted writer of children's literature. His admirers expected hu... Read more

Biographies (8)

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

483 words, approx. 2 pages

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

Lewis Carroll

774 words, approx. 3 pages

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 ... Read more

Lewis Carroll

1,507 words, approx. 6 pages

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

Lewis Carroll

7,655 words, approx. 26 pages

Lewis 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 Wonderland (1... Read more

Lewis Carroll

7,160 words, approx. 24 pages

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

Lewis Carroll

1,953 words, approx. 7 pages

Few writers of fantasy have managed to permeate their own cultures as did Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematician and amateur photographer who wrote children's books under the pseudonym Lewis Carrol... Read more

Lewis Carroll

8,295 words, approx. 28 pages

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

Lewis Carroll

905 words, approx. 4 pages

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 particul... Read more