Lewis Carroll
On January 27, 1832 in Daresbury, Cheshire, England one of the world’s most well known authors was created. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, otherwise known as Lewis Carroll. Carroll is the author of the very popular children’s story Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and many others. At a young age Carroll’s family knew he wanted to become a writer because of the simple yet meaningful poems Carroll wrote for his homemade newspaper. “Who in the world am I? Ah that’s a great puzzle.” - Lewis Carroll.
Carroll was the eldest boy out of eleven total children. He was the third child to be born. Carroll was raised by both his parents. His father, Charles Dodgeman, being a clergyman and his mother, Frances, a housewife. Growing up with ten other siblings kept Carroll very occupied until it was time for him to start going to school. Carroll was a very bright child. He excelled in mathematics. Carroll’s first high school was Rugby School. Then when his family moved to Richmond shire, Northshire he then went to Richmond School. During Carroll’s college years, he began to write more and do photography. It wasn’t long before Carroll got tired of photography and pursued writing. Some of Lewis Carroll’s famous photographs were of actress Ellen Terry and the poet Alfred Tennyson. At the
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Carroll’s writings were also inspired by his educational background and his childhood. Carroll’s childhood was very playful, so he based most of his stories off of games him and his siblings came up with as children. Carroll’s playful and amusing characters did lead to many obstacles in Carroll’s writing career. Critics thought Lewis Carroll was on drugs or was high because of his writing techniques. His obstacles didn’t only come from critics, but by him himself. Carroll faced a really bad stuttering problem, but this didn’t get in the way of Carroll telling his stories to children like