Lewis Carroll

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Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, born January 27, 1832, at All Saints' Vicarage in Daresbury, Cheshire, England, into a prominent Anglican family; his father was an ordained cleric who became Archdeacon of Richmond, and Dodgson was the eldest boy among eleven children. He was educated at home until age twelve, then attended Richmond School, Rugby School from 1846 to 1849, and Christ Church, Oxford, from 1850 onward, earning a BA in mathematics in 1854 with first-class honors. He served as mathematical lecturer at Christ Church from 1855 to 1881 and as sub-librarian of its library, and was ordained a deacon in 1861, though he notably declined ordination to the priesthood. Carroll is celebrated for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871), along with the nonsense poems "Jabberwocky" and The Hunting of the Snark. He also published extensively on mathematical logic and symbolic reasoning, invented the "doublets" word puzzle, and was a distinguished photographer who produced roughly three thousand images between 1856 and 1880. He spoke with a lifelong stammer and suffered chronic migraines. Carroll died January 14, 1898, at age sixty-five in Guildford, Surrey, of pneumonia following influenza, and was later commemorated with a memorial stone in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey.

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• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) · Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Core Canon
• Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) · Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Core Canon

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 2 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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