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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) was born in 1832. Already reading The Pilgrim's
Progress at the age of seven  his exceptional intelligence was apparent from the outset - his
Mathematics master at Rugby wrote of him  'I have not had a more promising boy at his age' -
and he went on to be awarded a double first class honours in Maths at Christ Church  Oxford.
Despite going on to hold a lectureship at Christ Church for twenty-six years  however  Dodgson
found it difficult to apply himself to academic work  and it is for his extraordinary literary
works that he is known. His two Alice books were originally composed for the daughter of the
dean of his college  Alice Liddell  and are the most famous and enduring of his works along
with The Hunting of the Snark   a book of nonsense verse. He also wrote works on logic and
satirical pamphlets on Oxford politics  and became a pioneering amateur portrait photographer 
specializing in Victorian celebrities and children. He died in 1898  at the age of sixty-five.

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