Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

             Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the first son, and third of eleven children, was born in Daresbury (Cheshire), England on January 27th, 1832. Influenced greatly by his father - a noble captain, Archdeacon, Canon, and dually mastered in Mathematics and the Classics, Charles spent his childhood years under the instruction and education of senior Charles. It was in 1844 that Dodgson began attending Richmond Grammar School, and then two years following, Charles was admitted into Rugby, one of the most primitive public schools in Cheshire. Jean Gattegno states in his biography on Charles, "his memories of this (attending Rugby) are to be most unhappy". It was also during his time at Rugby in which Charles began writing parodies, as well as organizing marionette shows to entertain his brothers and sisters. Upon matriculation at Rugby, Charles, following in his father's footsteps, continued in his education at Church Christ College, Oxford where he obtained First Class Honors in Mathematics and a second in Classical Moderations. Christ College is also where Charles was a mathematical lecturer, ordained Deacon, and remained until his death on January 14th, 1898. The particular era and time during which Charles was at Oxford, as well as his encounters with a particular girl-child named Alice Liddell, have a strong underlying pertaining to his styles of writing, as well as his stories' notable obscure and nonsensical nature.
             Dodgson is most notoriously known under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll, in which he wrote the famous children's tale, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (published in 1865). Many have found Dodgson's literary and poetic works to be nothing more than entertaining and hysterical in meaning, thus those who have looked more deeply into Dodgson's life have concluded that his works must contain a certain symbolic meaning in his use of allegory and satiric references.
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