Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll, pen-name of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-98). British writer for children. He became a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church College, Oxford, in 1854. He was very fond of children, ‘having none of his own, and wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) for Alice Liddell, the daughter of a friend. It was followed by Through the Looking Glass (1871) and the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark (1876). He also published a number of mathematical works under his own name.
