Lewis Carroll

(i.e. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) 1832-1898. Carroll was the eldest of eleven children of Rev. Charles Dodgson. He was educated first at home, and then at Rugby and Christ Church, Oxford. After graduation, Carroll remained at school to teach mathematics. Carroll was ordained a deacon, although he never made a career of religion. He lived at Christ Church for the rest of his life, lecturing and publishing both his children's works, his poetry, and numerous treatises on mathematics. Carroll never married. His major works: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, The Hunting of the Snark (poem), Sylvie and Bruno (short story), Symbolic Logic.