Lewis Carroll, the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), was an English writer, mathematician and photographer. A lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford, he wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), first told to Alice Liddell and her sisters, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871), both illustrated by John Tenniel. He also published the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark, the novel Sylvie and Bruno, works of logic and mathematics, and a large body of letters, and was one of the notable portrait photographers of his time.
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Lewis Carroll, the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), was an English writer, mathematician and photographer. A lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford, he wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), first told to Alice Liddell and her sisters, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871), both illustrated by John Tenniel. He also published the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark, the novel Sylvie and Bruno, works of logic and mathematics, and a large body of letters, and was one of the notable portrait photographers of his time.