Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson in Cheshire in 1832, was the eldest son of a clergyman's eleven children, and as a boy loved inventing stories, games and family magazines for his brothers and sisters. After graduating from Christ Church, Oxford, he stayed on and taught mathematics there for more than twenty years, writing several books on logic and geometry. He had a slight stammer and was shy and stiff among adults, but delightful company for children. He was also one of the finest amateur photographers of the Victorian age. On a sunny afternoon in July 1862 he and a friend took the three little daughters of Dean Liddell boating, and he made up a story as they went; ten-year-old Alice Liddell begged him to write it down, and it became Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.