Publication details of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland:

Published in July, 1865

Other literary works include:

Through the Looking Glass (1871)
The Hunting of the Shark (1876)
Phantasmagonia and other Poems (1869)

Born:

27th January, 1832, in Daresbury, England

Early years:

He was the son of a churchman and the eldest of eleven children. His mother and father were cousins and very religious.

Schooling:

In the early years he was educated at home but, at the age of twelve, he was sent away to a small public school at nearby Richmond. In 1846 he moved to Rugby school, where he was less happy. He left Rugby in 1849 and in January, 1851 he went to Christ Church College, Oxford.

Career:

He was appointed as a Maths lecturer at Christ Church in 1855, and remained in the post for 26 years. Also, he was ordained deacon in the Church of England in 1861, but never practiced his ministry. His writings include articles and books on geometry, determinants, and the mathematics of tournaments and elections. However, the name Lewis Carroll had been made famous by the Alice stories which were originally written in 1862 for Alice Liddell, a daughter of Henry Liddell, dean of Christ Church College. In 1856, he took up the then new art form of photography. Many of his photographs were of portraits of children in various costumes and poses. However, because of these pictures were criticized, he abandoned photography in 1880.

Final years:

He continued teaching at Christ College until 1881 and published many mathematical papers under his own name.

Died:

He bought a house in Guildford, Surrey, where he died suddenly of an an attack of bronchitis on 14th January, 1898.