Analysis Of Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: Through The Looking Glass By Lewis Carroll

Charles Dodgson was the real name of the author who wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and the sequel Through the Looking Glass. For his writing he went under the pen name Lewis Carroll. Along with writing he was also an English logician, mathematician, and photographer. He had a lot of siblings; 7 girls and 4 boys were born to his parents. He was the third child born and their oldest son. He also went through a lot of illnesses, one left him deaf in one ear. He had a stutter, but Carroll referred to it as a “hesitation” and it never really got corrected. He had migraines and was even diagnosed with epilepsy. There was one time where Carroll had written of losing all consciousness and waking up with a bloody nose. He wrote of these in his …show more content…
He had told the children a story called Alice’s Adventures Underground. A lot of the story was based on a picnic the group had went on a few weeks earlier. Evidently this story was better as 2 of the children thought so and even began to cry. Alice Liddell wanted him to continue to write out the adventures for her! Carroll wrote down the story and added extra tales to and it added his own drawings into the book and gave it to Alice, he did not expect to hear about the book again. Author Henry Kingsley saw the book when visiting the church and thought it was good, he wanted the children's mom to get Carroll to publish the book. Carroll told his best friend, who had made several children’s books himself, and he read the book to his kids, and his son wanted there to be more of the …show more content…
The book got published in 1865 as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the first edition was taken back though because of bad copies, only 21 copies remain from that group. The book became fairly popular and by the next year Caroll was already thinking about making a sequel. The book was just as good as the first one, and by the time of Carroll’s death the books had become the most popular children's books in England. He had also created 2 other books to get back to Alice books but they were unpopular and described as a great failure, the books were Sylvie and Bruno, and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. He also wrote a few funny poems and things and those were published even before the Alice books. He wrote Euclid and his Modern Rivals, which is a book on mathematics. There’s also Phantasmagoria and Other Poems, which was a collection of multiple poems and pieces. This was later separated into 2 more