charles lutwidge dodgson the author's personal life and the works of him

1. Presented by: Claire Gui
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

2. Self-intruduction
27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898
pen name: Lewis Carroll
an English writer, mathematician,
logician, photographer
 most famous writings
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking-Glass,
(Jabberwocky, The Hunting of the Snark)
the genre of literary nonsense.
• noted for his facility at word play, logic,
and fantasy

3. My Education
Home life
• During early youth, I was educated at home.
• My "reading lists" preserved in the family
archives testify to a precocious intellect:
• Read The Pilgrim's Progress when I was 7
• suffered from a stammer that often influenced
my social life
• Studied in Richmond Grammar School at
nearby Richmond when I was 12

4. My Education
• Rugby
entered Rugby School in 1846
I was evidently unhappy
• Oxford
left Rugby at the end of 1849
matriculated at Oxford in May 1850
went into residence in January 1851

5. Personal information
• Health challenges
• The young one was about 6 feet (1.83 m) tall and
slender
• had curly brown hair and blue or grey eyes
• somewhat asymmetrica in later life, and as carrying
rather stiffly and awkwardly, although this might be on
account of a knee injury sustained in middle age.
• suffered a fever that left deaf in one ear as a very young
child

6. Best-known book
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• 1865
• It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary
nonsense genre.
• Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery
have been enormously influential in both popular culture and
literature, especially in the fantasy genre.

7. Favourite character
• Alice Adventures in Wonderland --- Alice