Meet the man who created Alice, the Mad Hatter, and Tweedle Dee and
Tweedle Dum!
Lewis Carroll is the pen name of Charles L. Dodgson, a mathematician and
church deacon, who taught at Oxford University. He was inspired to write
his best known works, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through
the Looking Glass, by one of the Dean's daughters, Alice Liddell. The
books were hugely successful and brought Carroll wide acclaim,
especially for the nonsense poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the
Snark.
Children and adults continue to be delighted by the fantasy of the Alice
stories, which have been the basis of plays and movies since their
publication in Victorian England during the 1860s and 1870s.
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