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Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

LINKS

http://65.107.211.206/victorian/carroll/carrollov.html

This link connects you to the Victorian Web entry on Lewis Carroll. Here you will find an extensive archive of primary and secondary works covering Lewis Carroll's writings in terms of major themes and patterns of imagery, as well as the political contexts, social movements, and intellectual backgrounds defining the poet's era.

http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=79

This link connects you to the Academy of American Poets. Here you will find an exhibit on Lewis Carroll including a biography, online primary texts, criticism, bibliographic information, and additional links.

BIOGRAPHY

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, or "Lewis Carroll," was born in 1832. From Cheshire the family moved to Yorkshire when Charles was 11. Home schooled early on, Charles was enrolled in Yorkshire Grammar School and the Rugby School. For his advanced study, he attended his father's alma mater, Christ Church of Oxford. A gifted mathematician, Dodgson assumed a Christ Church Mathematical Lectureship upon graduation for the next 26 years. By the mid-1850s he had published several comical and satirical poems and short stories in such national journals as The Comic Times and by 1856, he had also become a skilled photographer. It was also in this year that he published his first poem "Solitude" under the pseudonym "Lewis Carroll." The genesis for his famous publication Alice's Adventures under Ground, or Alice in Wonderland (1865) came in 1862 in stories he invented to entertain the children of Henry Liddell, the Dean of Christ Church. At the urging of Alice Liddell, Dodgson wrote out what would become Alice in Wonder Land, which brought him his lasting reputation as an author, publishing the sequels Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1871), as well as The Hunting of The Snark (1876).

SECONDARY SOURCES

Bakewell, Michael. Lewis Carroll: A Biography. London : Heinemann, 1996.

Brown, Sally. The Original Alice: From Manuscript to Wonderland. London: British Library, 1997.

Fordyce, Rachel. Semiotics and Linguistics in Alice's World. New York : W. de Gruyter, 1994.

Leach, Karoline. In the Shadow of the Dreamchild: A New Understanding of Lewis Carroll. London: Peter Owen, 1999.

Lovett, Charles. Lewis Carroll and the Press: An Annotated Bibliography of Charles Dodgson's Contributions to Periodicals. London : British Library, 1999.

Reichertz, Ronald. The Making of the Alice Books: Lewis Carroll's Uses of Earlier Children's Literature. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997.

Robson, Catherine. Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentlemen. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2001.

Thomas, Donald Serrell. Lewis Carroll: A Portrait with Background. London: John Murray, 1996.

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