Through the Looking Glass followed in 1871. So he put the little girl Alice Liddell into a dream-story and found himself famous as the author of Alice in Wonderland (1865). Lewis Carroll, shy in the company of adults, loved children and knew and understood the world of the imagination in which the most sensitive of them lived. Charles Dodgson might have been completely forgotten but for the work of his alter ego, Lewis Carroll. He was the author, under his own name, of An Elementary Treatise on Determinants (1867), Symbolic Logic (1896), and other scholarly treatises which would hardly have given him a place in English literature. He became a minister of the Church of England and a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church College, Oxford. Born in Daresbury, England,in 1832, Charles Luthwidge Dodgson is better known by his pen mane of Lewis Carroll.
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