Lewis Carroll
1832–1898
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Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematician and logician at Christ Church, Oxford. A keen photographer in the new art's early decades, he told a story to the young Alice Liddell and her sisters on a boating trip in 1862 — and it became Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
The book's dream logic, wordplay and unforgettable characters — the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts — made it an instant classic. Its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871), introduced Tweedledum and Tweedledee and the poem "Jabberwocky".
Carroll never married and spent his whole adult life at Oxford, publishing mathematical works alongside his nonsense. Alice has never been out of print since 1865, and Wonderland remains the Victorian imagination's most beloved dreamscape.
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