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From Publishers Weekly
Biography of the multitalented author and mathematician.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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In his time, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was known to the world as an outstanding pioneer photographer of children, particularly of female children, as well as for being the author Lewis Carroll. One of Dodgson's "child-friends," Alice Lidell, served as the inspiraton for his literary Alice. These child-friend associations subjected Dodgson to public scrutiny, gossip, and suspicion concerning his emotional and sexual proclivities, suppressed though they may have been. Dodgson chose to "let them talk." Biographer Cohen (Lewis Carroll: Interviews and Recollections, Univ. of Iowa Pr., 1988) uses previously unavailable family and personal documents, diaries, and letters to show that the shy bachelor Dodgson, Oxford mathematics don and lecturer, held himself to the strictest of moral codes. While Lewis Carroll has been probed and analyzed by countless writers (see, for instance, John Pudney's Lewis Carroll and His World, 1976), this book is about the intimate and complex life of the man behind all those who lived on the other side of the looking glass. Recommended for all literature collections.?Robert L. Kelly, Fort Wayne Community Schs., Ind.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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The man who came to be known the world over as Lewis Carroll breathed his first on January 27, 1832, during the reign of William IV, in the parsonage of Daresbury in Cheshire. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Christ Church, Lewis Carroll, Common Room, Charles Dodgson, Ellen Terry, Lord Salisbury, Miss Thomson, Miss Prickett, Isa Bowman, Tom Quad, Alice Liddell, Gertrude Thomson, Pall Mall Gazette, High Church, College Rhymes, Matthew Arnold, Prince of Wales, Stolen Waters, Beatrice Hatch, The Hunting of the Snark, Hatfield House, Croft Rectory, Duchess of Albany, Enid Stevens, Father William New!
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