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tales
lookingglass
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII |
 The
Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27, 1832?January 14, 1898),
better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author,
mathematician, Anglican clergyman.
His family was mostly northern English,
Conservative, Anglican, upper middle class, and inclining towards the
two good old upper middle class professions of the army and the Church.
His great grandfather, had risen through the
ranks of the church to become a bishop, his grandfather, had been an
army captain, killed in action in 1803 while his two sons were hardly
more than babies.
Born at Daresbury, Cheshire, He died at
Guildford on 14th January 1898
Two Victorians, Lewis Carroll and Edward
Lear, carried the art of nonsense to the highest point that it
has so far touched, or is likely to touch. It is no accident that both
were Englishmen. After Shakespeare, there is no English author more
deserving of study by a foreigner intent on exploring English character
and English humour than Lewis Carroll.
The first publication of Alice's Adventures
in Wonderland in 1865 was solely the result of a sudden inspiration. Its
origin must be attributed to one particular event, a trip up river from
Oxford with three little girls in 1862, but Dodgson had been preparing
himself for Alice in Wonderland and its sequel Through the
Looking-Glass for twenty years. |
