Could you imagine a wonderful and whimsical world that a young girl explores and has amazing adventures? Lewis Carroll made that world come to life through his story of Alice in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found. Which were his most known accomplishments, and not many know what else he did through his entire life. He did write other nonsense works and took amazing photos of many people that did not rise above to have amazing effects on people later in his life. Throughout, Lewis Carroll’s life he did so many amazing thing, though many did not recognize them all. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born January 27, 1832 in Daresbury, United Kingdom (“Lewis Carroll” 1). In Cheshire in northern England, Charles and his siblings
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In 1855 he became a math lecturer at his college, one year after graduating. He would make up games and stories/ poems some of which would foreshadow events in Alice in Wonderland (“Lewis Carroll” 1). He then became absorbed with photography and writing, his interests were children and famous people. He then created the pseudonym “Lewis Carroll” by translating his first and middle names into Latin. He also wrote humorous and math works some of his nonsense works are: The Hunting of the Snark, Sylvie and Bruno, and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (“Lewis Carroll” 2). Charles did buy his own camera and chemicals to develop his photos. For him and all Victorians, “the impact of photography was staggering” (Carpenter 38). As he began taking photos more and more, many famous people wanted Lewis to take their family photos or simply their own photo such as: George MacDonald and his family, the Liddell family, and the Tennyson family (Carpenter …show more content…
By this time Lewis had given up lecturing to be devoted to writing, though became honorary steward of Christ Church in 1882 (Carpenter 95). Then later the first volume of Symbolic Logic was published in 1896 this was more tended for young people also was the last known work from Lewis before dieing (Carpenter 106). He soon died after having a cold that turned into pneumonia,which was often fatal back then, he died on January 14, 1898 in Guildford (Carpenter 108). Later in 2008 Alice in Wonderland was performed as an opera at the Center of Contemporary Opera in a collaboration with Princeton University. Then two years later Walt Disney Studio Motion Pictures turned it into a movie and Oxford World’s Classics reissued the stories as single-volume paperback (“Lewis Carroll” 3). Having a mind great enough to think of adventures through a “wonderland” is something Lewis Carroll was known for. As many know of his major accomplishments as the Alice in Wonderland series, others know he did so many great things. He wrote other stories took photos and was never acknowledged for them publicly. To even make something as whimsical as wonderland your mind would be filled with a longing for excitement and
In 1855 he became a math lecturer at his college, one year after graduating. He would make up games and stories/ poems some of which would foreshadow events in Alice in Wonderland (“Lewis Carroll” 1). He then became absorbed with photography and writing, his interests were children and famous people. He then created the pseudonym “Lewis Carroll” by translating his first and middle names into Latin. He also wrote humorous and math works some of his nonsense works are: The Hunting of the Snark, Sylvie and Bruno, and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (“Lewis Carroll” 2). Charles did buy his own camera and chemicals to develop his photos. For him and all Victorians, “the impact of photography was staggering” (Carpenter 38). As he began taking photos more and more, many famous people wanted Lewis to take their family photos or simply their own photo such as: George MacDonald and his family, the Liddell family, and the Tennyson family (Carpenter …show more content…
By this time Lewis had given up lecturing to be devoted to writing, though became honorary steward of Christ Church in 1882 (Carpenter 95). Then later the first volume of Symbolic Logic was published in 1896 this was more tended for young people also was the last known work from Lewis before dieing (Carpenter 106). He soon died after having a cold that turned into pneumonia,which was often fatal back then, he died on January 14, 1898 in Guildford (Carpenter 108). Later in 2008 Alice in Wonderland was performed as an opera at the Center of Contemporary Opera in a collaboration with Princeton University. Then two years later Walt Disney Studio Motion Pictures turned it into a movie and Oxford World’s Classics reissued the stories as single-volume paperback (“Lewis Carroll” 3). Having a mind great enough to think of adventures through a “wonderland” is something Lewis Carroll was known for. As many know of his major accomplishments as the Alice in Wonderland series, others know he did so many great things. He wrote other stories took photos and was never acknowledged for them publicly. To even make something as whimsical as wonderland your mind would be filled with a longing for excitement and