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Lewis CarollCharles Lutwidge Dodgson was born in the small parsonage at Daresbury in Cheshire near the towns of Warrington and Runcorn. He was the eldest boy but already the third child, eight more children followed. Charles' father was an active and highly conservative cleric of the Church of England who later became the Archdeacon of Richmond. Young Charles was to develop an ambiguous relationship with his father's values and with the Church of England as a whole.
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During his early youth, Dodgson was educated at home. His "reading lists" preserved in the family archives testify to a precocious intellect: at the age of seven, he was reading books such as The Pilgrim's Progress -
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At the age of twelve, he was sent to Richmond Grammar School at nearby Richmond. -
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Dodgson entered Rugby School -
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He left Rugby at the end of 1849 and matriculated at Oxford in May 1850 as a member of his father's old college, Christ Church. -
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In 1856, he published his first piece of work under the name that would make him famous. A romantic poem called "Solitude" appeared in The Train under the authorship of "Lewis Carroll". This pseudonym was a play on his real name: Lewis was the anglicised form of Ludovicus, which was the Latin for Lutwidge, and Carroll an Irish surname similar to the Latin name Carolus, from which comes the name Charles. The transition went a -
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It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. -
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Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. -
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A crew of ten trying to hunt the Snark, an animal which may turn out to be a highly dangerous Boojum. The only one of the crew to find the Snark quickly vanishes, leading the narrator to explain that it was a Boojum after all. -
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In Carroll's dialogue, the tortoise challenges Achilles to use the force of logic to make him accept the conclusion of a simple deductive argument. Ultimately, Achilles fails, because the clever tortoise leads him into an infinite regression. -
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He died of pneumonia following influenza on 14 January 1898 at his sisters' home, "The Chestnuts", in Guildford. He was two weeks away from turning 66 years old. He is buried in Guildford at the Mount Cemetery.
