摘要：Lewis Carroll’s real name is Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the first of 11 children of a clergyman. Born on Jan. 27, 1832, he soon became the family entertainer, with magic tricks, puppet shows, parodies, poems, word play puzzles and a family newspaper. He went to Rugby school and studied mathematics at Christchurch College, Oxford. After graduating, he remained at Christchurch as a lecturer in mathematics; however he was not a good teacher- perhaps because of his stammer-and was better known as a writer on maths and logic, writing more than 30 papers. He also held various administrative posts at the university. He met the Liddell children (daughters of the Dean of Christchurch) in the late 1850s, and started by photographing them. Dodgson was something of a pioneer in the early days of photography. It was a trip up the river from Oxford to Godstow with Lorina and Edith (8) on 4th July 1862 which laid the foundations of the first Alice story, although many of the elements were things he had already invented. The book was finally published as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1868, with illustrations by John Tenniel, which have become as famous as the story itself. It was an instant success, and has remained a classic of children’s literature in English. His pen-name--Lewis Carroll--was a word-play from a Latinised inversion of his own first two names. Unlike many writers, Dodgson made the sequel Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There equally interesting and amusing. It was published in 1871. His long nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark was published in 1876, and towards the end of his life the two long Sylvie and Bruno novels, but were neither as good nor as successful as the Alice books. Dodgson died on 14th January 1898.

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