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3. LITERATURE
3.1. “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll
(1832 - 1898)
Author of two the best known and best-loved children’s books ever
written, Lewis Carroll is also remembered for his neologisms and nonsense
rhymes.
Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He
arrived at this pseudonym by translating his two first names back into English
from Latin and reversing their order. Born the eldest of eleven children, he
showed an early aptitude for writing and edited his own magazines to entertain
the family. He was educated at Rugby, soon after the school had been re-
organized under Dr. Arnold and then at Christ Church, Oxford. He became
mathematical lecturer at the same college from 1855 until his retirement in
1881. He was ordained as a clergyman in 1861, but held no benefice and rarely
preached. He was a shy man who was handicapped by a stammer; his self-
consciousness was lessened only in the presence of children, especially girls.
Alice Liddell, second of the three young daughters of the Dean of Christ
Church, was the greatest among these ‘child friends’. On 4 July 1862 he and
another took the sisters out boating, and Dodgson entertained his audience with
a story, which he called ‘Alice’s Adventures Underground’. This was to appear
in print in 1865 as “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, accompanied by Sir
John Tenniels' atmospheric illustrations. It was followed by "Through the
Looking Glass" (1872), relating the further adventures of Alice with pictures by
the same illustrator. He also published the mock-heroic poem “The Hunting of
the Snark” (1876) and the more sentimental “Sylvie and Bruno” (1889). At the
same time he was also the author of several mathematical treatises, of which the
most influential was “Euclid and his Modern Rivals” (1879). Queen Victoria
was bemused, rather than amused, to receive one of these, when after the
success of the Alice books she gave him an audience and requested that
Dodgson send her his next publication.
Dodgson was also a pioneer in the art of photography; his portraits of
children, especially, are highly skilled. However, he is still best remembered for
his witty subversion of the staid and often stodgy books that the Victorians
thought were suitable for their children.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was an instant success when it was first
published and, together with Through the Looking Glass, has remained popular
with children and adults alike ever since.
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