With so many brothers and sisters, Charles became a master at helping to raise the younger ones by creating family magazines, complete with sketches, poems and essays. The family barnyard and surrounding fields and gardens provided a backdrop for made-up stories and inventing strange diversions among the snails and toads. Charles’s father often taught his son mathematics in addition to classic and foreign languages. His childhood helped to stamp his character. (There were only 143 people living in the farming community of Daresbury.)
With gently smiling jaws! A Formative Family LifeĬharles’s father was a clergyman, Charles was third in a family of 11 children and he grew up in a very small village in England. He wrote funny, crazy and humorous tales, the kind that would delight his many brothers and sisters. He had a knack for poetry but not just the rhyming romantic sonnets so popular then. This young man’s writing became as world-famous and has received as many viewings as the Bible and Shakespeare.
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His writing life as Lewis Carroll was a dichotomy-a contradiction-of his professional life as the don of Oxford University where he taught, tutored and lectured in mathematics. As a writer he adopted the pen name, Lewis Carroll, and wrote the most fantastic and world-renown tales beginning with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There and The Hunting of a Snark, among others.
He was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson during the Victorian era in 1832, and lived a long, fairly robust and healthy life until age 66 when he died of pneumonia in 1898.
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