Some of the greatest authors come from England, they are the most intelligent, weird, and creative. Like Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, but best known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll (“Biography. A&E television networks.”). Despite Carroll being described as a “weirdo” who photographed and his relationship with younger females (“Petal Pixel.”), he was an extraordinary author who opened the gates of imagination to everyone with his most famous books “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass”. But in order to understand Lewis Carroll, we must comprehend him, his life, and his most important work “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”. Lewis Carroll was born on January 27,182, in a small village just outside of Daresbury, Cheshire, England. He was the eldest boy out of 11 children, Carroll and his 10 other siblings were raised by their father Charles Dodgson, a clergyman. The Dodgson family lived
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Tenniel the illustrator sent the drawings to get printed but when they came out to be so bad Carroll had to spend more money to get the books reprinted and illustrated. Lewis lost all his money but once the novel was published he began to regain his money back. But after all that the book was Blockbuster success, the book is known to have changed the landscape of children's literature. It added the nonsense fun to a genre that is usually used to set moral and good examples to children (“Mental Floss”). When the first book was a big success he wrote “Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There”, it was based on many of the games he played with the girls. Humpty Dumpty, the White Knight, and Tweedledum and Tweedledee make more appearances in this second book than they did in Alice in Wonderland (“Encyclopedia of World Biography”.). Lewis Carroll was a weird and amazing author who showed the deeper side of imagination and the world will always be thankful for
Tenniel the illustrator sent the drawings to get printed but when they came out to be so bad Carroll had to spend more money to get the books reprinted and illustrated. Lewis lost all his money but once the novel was published he began to regain his money back. But after all that the book was Blockbuster success, the book is known to have changed the landscape of children's literature. It added the nonsense fun to a genre that is usually used to set moral and good examples to children (“Mental Floss”). When the first book was a big success he wrote “Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There”, it was based on many of the games he played with the girls. Humpty Dumpty, the White Knight, and Tweedledum and Tweedledee make more appearances in this second book than they did in Alice in Wonderland (“Encyclopedia of World Biography”.). Lewis Carroll was a weird and amazing author who showed the deeper side of imagination and the world will always be thankful for