Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Cambridge Library Collection - Fiction and Poetry)

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Woolf, Jenny (4 February 2010). The Mystery of Lewis Carroll. St. Martin's Press. pp.298–9. ISBN 978-0-312-67371-0.

Rhyme? And Reason? (1883) – shares some contents with the 1869 collection, including the long poem "Phantasmagoria" An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, With Their Application to Simultaneous Linear Equations and Algebraic Equations Contrariwise: the Association for New Lewis Carroll Studies – articles by leading members of the 'new scholarship' Elster, Charles Harrington (2006). The big book of beastly mispronunciations: the complete opinionated guide for the careful speaker. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp.158–159. ISBN 061842315X. Archived from the original on 3 January 2017 . Retrieved 3 August 2016.Carroll, L. (1895). "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles". Mind. IV (14): 278–280. doi: 10.1093/mind/IV.14.278. Dodgson died of pneumonia following influenza on 14 January 1898 at his sisters' home, "The Chestnuts", in Guildford in the county of Surrey, just four days before the death of Henry Liddell. He was two weeks away from turning 66 years old. His funeral was held at the nearby St Mary's Church. [88] His body was buried at the Mount Cemetery in Guildford. [29] Dodgson's stammer did trouble him, but it was never so debilitating that it prevented him from applying his other personal qualities to do well in society. He lived in a time when people commonly devised their own amusements and when singing and recitation were required social skills, and the young Dodgson was well equipped to be an engaging entertainer. He could reportedly sing at a passable level and was not afraid to do so before an audience. He was also adept at mimicry and storytelling, and reputedly quite good at charades. [27] Social connections [ edit ]

The overwhelming commercial success of the first Alice book changed Dodgson's life in many ways. [48] [49] [50] The fame of his alter ego "Lewis Carroll" soon spread around the world. He was inundated with fan mail and with sometimes unwanted attention. Indeed, according to one popular story, Queen Victoria herself enjoyed Alice in Wonderland so much that she commanded that he dedicate his next book to her, and was accordingly presented with his next work, a scholarly mathematical volume entitled An Elementary Treatise on Determinants. [51] [52] Dodgson himself vehemently denied this story, commenting "...It is utterly false in every particular: nothing even resembling it has occurred"; [52] [53] and it is unlikely for other reasons. As T. B. Strong comments in a Times article, "It would have been clean contrary to all his practice to identify [the] author of Alice with the author of his mathematical works". [54] [55] He also began earning quite substantial sums of money but continued with his seemingly disliked post at Christ Church. [29] Fit for a Queen". Snopes. 26 March 1999. Archived from the original on 26 March 2022 . Retrieved 25 March 2011. Moktefi, Amirouche. (2008) "Lewis Carroll's Logic", pp. 457–505 in British Logic in the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 4 of Handbook of the History of Logic, Dov M. Gabbay and John Woods (eds.) Amsterdam: Elsevier. The discovery in the 1990s of additional ciphers that Dodgson had constructed, in addition to his "Memoria Technica", showed that he had employed sophisticated mathematical ideas in their creation. [81] Correspondence [ edit ] As Carroll was born in All Saints' Vicarage, he is commemorated at All Saints' Church, Daresbury by stained glass windows depicting characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The Lewis Carroll Centre, attached to the church, was opened in March 2012. [119] Works [ edit ] Literary works [ edit ]In 1856, Dean Henry Liddell arrived at Christ Church, bringing with him his young family, all of whom would figure largely in Dodgson's life over the following years, and would greatly influence his writing career. Dodgson became close friends with Liddell's wife Lorina and their children, particularly the three sisters Lorina, Edith, and Alice Liddell. He was widely assumed for many years to have derived his own "Alice" from Alice Liddell; the acrostic poem at the end of Through the Looking-Glass spells out her name in full, and there are also many superficial references to her hidden in the text of both books. It has been noted that Dodgson himself repeatedly denied in later life that his "little heroine" was based on any real child, [40] [41] and he frequently dedicated his works to girls of his acquaintance, adding their names in acrostic poems at the beginning of the text. Gertrude Chataway's name appears in this form at the beginning of The Hunting of the Snark, and it is not suggested that this means that any of the characters in the narrative are based on her. [41] The Colour Library Book of Great British Writers' (1993), p.197, Colour Library Books Ltd, (Godalming, England) ISBN=0-86283-676-6. Carroll, Lewis (1995). Wakeling, Edward (ed.). Rediscovered Lewis Carroll Puzzles. New York City: Dover Publications. pp. 13. ISBN 0486288617. A study by Roger Taylor and Edward Wakeling exhaustively lists every surviving print, and Taylor calculates that just over half of his surviving work depicts young girls, though about 60% of his original photographic portfolio is now missing. [61] Dodgson also made many studies of men, women, boys, and landscapes; his subjects also include skeletons, dolls, dogs, statues, paintings, and trees. [62] His pictures of children were taken with a parent in attendance and many of the pictures were taken in the Liddell garden because natural sunlight was required for good exposures. [42] The Rossetti Family, by Lewis Carroll (1863). L-R: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Frances Polidori and William Michael Rossetti Robbins, D. P.; Rumsey, H. (1986). "Determinants and alternating sign matrices". Advances in Mathematics. 62 (2): 169. doi: 10.1016/0001-8708(86)90099-X.

Dodgson wrote and received as many as 98,721 letters, according to a special letter register which he devised. He documented his advice about how to write more satisfying letters in a missive entitled " Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing", published in 1890. [82] Later years [ edit ] Lewis Carroll in later life Angelica Shirley Carpenter (2002). Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking Glass. Lerner. p.98. ISBN 978-0822500735. Schütze, Franziska: Disney in Wonderland: A Comparative Analysis of Disney's Alice in Wonderland Film Adaptations from 1951 and 2010 He is commemorated at All Saints' Church, Daresbury, in its stained glass windows depicting characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, erected in 1935 [89] Controversies and mysteries [ edit ] Sexuality [ edit ]Deanna Haunsperger, Stephen Kennedy (31 July 2006). The Edge of the Universe: Celebrating Ten Years of Math Horizons. Mathematical Association of America. p.22. ISBN 0-88385-555-0. Lewis Carroll Societies". Lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk. Archived from the original on 29 March 2016 . Retrieved 12 September 2013. He also devised a number of games, including an early version of what today is known as Scrabble. Devised some time in 1878, he invented the "doublet" (see word ladder), a form of brain-teaser that is still popular today, changing one word into another by altering one letter at a time, each successive change always resulting in a genuine word. [69] For instance, CAT is transformed into DOG by the following steps: CAT, COT, DOT, DOG. [29] It first appeared in the 29 March 1879 issue of Vanity Fair, with Carroll writing a weekly column for the magazine for two years; the final column dated 9 April 1881. [70] The games and puzzles of Lewis Carroll were the subject of Martin Gardner's March 1960 Mathematical Games column in Scientific American. Gardner, Martin (2009). Introduction to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Oxford University Press. p.xvi. ISBN 978-0-517-02962-6.

Podoll, K; Robinson, D (1999). "Lewis Carroll's migraine experiences". The Lancet. 353 (9161): 1366. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)74368-3. PMID 10218566. S2CID 5082284. Robbins' and Rumsey's investigation [80] of Dodgson condensation, a method of evaluating determinants, led them to the alternating sign matrix conjecture, now a theorem. Lewis Carroll". Biography in Context. Gale. Archived from the original on 26 March 2022 . Retrieved 24 September 2015. Carroll came from a family of high-church Anglicans, and developed a long relationship with Christ Church, Oxford, where he lived for most of his life as a scholar and teacher. Alice Liddell – a daughter of Henry Liddell, the Dean of Christ Church – is widely identified as the original inspiration for Alice in Wonderland, though Carroll always denied this. Tref Griffiths, founder of CluedUpp Games, said: “Our events are all about getting family and friends outside and playing games together in a completely unique way. Alice in Wonderland gave us the perfect opportunity to create a brand new themed experience that we hope people will love. Get ready for some topsy turvy fun!”Flodden W. Heron, "Lewis Carroll, Inventor of Postage Stamp Case" in Stamps, vol. 26, no. 12, 25 March 1939 In 1982, his great-nephew unveiled a memorial stone to him in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey. [117] In January 1994, an asteroid, 6984 Lewiscarroll, was discovered and named after Carroll. The Lewis Carroll Centenary Wood near his birthplace in Daresbury opened in 2000. [118]