Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll was originally born in Daresbury, Cheshire, England on January 27, 1832. He was the eldest of eleven children and they were raised in the rectory. At a young age, it was quite evident that Lewis was exceptionally gifted in various academic subjects and he even won academic prizes when he was only a chil. Lewis Carroll was a literary genius when it came to writing children's books and his works later became a major influence on the growing genre of American literature.
Lewis Carroll’s father was highly-respected in the church and they believed that his son would have the same traditional values. However, Lewis started to have views that were distinct to his father’s views, and this accounted for some awkward tensions between them. One reason that Lewis’ views could have diverged from his father’s would be as a result from his interest in the field of photography. Lewis Carroll went to Christ Church, Oxford and he taught mathematics and was also a Deacon. He would take everything very serious, especially the preparation of his sermons. Which is not a bad thing at all because it shows
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It was more of a hobby to him. He enjoyed taking pictures of anything but he would often use children as his muse in the photographs he took. He had a young model named Alice Liddell and a story he once story became the acclaimed story many people know to this day.. After a while he stopped taking pictures and started focusing more on his writing. Instead, he began focusing more and more on his writing to draw connections between games to his writing by making his writing playful, full of fantasies and enticingly humorous. Soon following this style of writing Lewis tried to encompass, he started to write about Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In addition, he followed this story by starting to write Through the Looking Glass. Both of these stories were meant to be stories that children would