Lewis Carroll is the pen-name for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who was a lecturer of mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford. Dodgson started the telling of this tale on July 4, 1862 during a rowing boat tour on the Thames River at Oxford. Pastor Robinson Duckworth and three girls were members of the party: Alice Liddell, the ten-year old daughter of the dean of Christ Church, and her sisters Lorina, aged thirteen, and Edith, eight years of age. The poem at the beginning of the story states that the threesome urged Dodgson to tell them a story. And so he set out to present the first version of the tale, admittedly with some initial reluctance. Now and then, within the broader tale, reference is made to all five of the boat party; the story first appeared in print in 1865. ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR: As a child, June Lornie spent much of her life in hospital. She had to lay on her back, so she used a mirror to see what was going on around her -- and as a result, she always saw the world back to front. The nurses told her fairy stories like "Cinderella", "Snow White", and many more. Because she had a mirror, she was told a story, "Through the Looking-Glass", about a little girl who went through a mirror -- that little girl was called Alice. After this she was read "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and fell in love with the story. As the years went by June remained fascinated with Alice. Later in her career, June became director of the Liverpool Academy of Arts. Her illustrations for Alice started with a single work: "The Mad Tea-Party". This was soon joined by others, then, after she had had an exhibition of this first group and saw them all hanging on a wall together, she felt inspired to complete a full set of illustrations for the story, work which occupied her off and on for a further two years. After the "Cheshire Life" magazine did a two-page spread on her illustrations, June and her husband David joined the Daresbury Lewis Carroll Society. She has held many exhibitions displaying her illustrations for "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", and plans to start illustrating "Through the Looking-Glass" as well.
Lewis Carroll is the pen-name for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who was a lecturer of mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford. Dodgson started the telling of this tale on July 4, 1862 during a rowing boat tour on the Thames River at Oxford. Pastor Robinson Duckworth and three girls were members of the party: Alice Liddell, the ten-year old daughter of the dean of Christ Church, and her sisters Lorina, aged thirteen, and Edith, eight years of age. The poem at the beginning of the story states that the threesome urged Dodgson to tell them a story. And so he set out to present the first version of the tale, admittedly with some initial reluctance. Now and then, within the broader tale, reference is made to all five of the boat party; the story first appeared in print in 1865. ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR: As a child, June Lornie spent much of her life in hospital. She had to lay on her back, so she used a mirror to see what was going on around her -- and as a result, she always saw the world back to front. The nurses told her fairy stories like "Cinderella", "Snow White", and many more. Because she had a mirror, she was told a story, "Through the Looking-Glass", about a little girl who went through a mirror -- that little girl was called Alice. After this she was read "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and fell in love with the story. As the years went by June remained fascinated with Alice. Later in her career, June became director of the Liverpool Academy of Arts. Her illustrations for Alice started with a single work: "The Mad Tea-Party". This was soon joined by others, then, after she had had an exhibition of this first group and saw them all hanging on a wall together, she felt inspired to complete a full set of illustrations for the story, work which occupied her off and on for a further two years. After the "Cheshire Life" magazine did a two-page spread on her illustrations, June and her husband David joined the Daresbury Lewis Carroll Society. She has held many exhibitions displaying her illustrations for "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", and plans to start illustrating "Through the Looking-Glass" as well.
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better know by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was born in 1832. Among other works, he was the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass; and the whimsical poem "Jabberwocky." Carroll was also an Anglican deacon, mathematician, photographer, and inventor. Carroll came from a family of conservative, high-church Anglicans. Most of his male ancestors were Church of England clergy or army officers. He spent much of his life as a scholar and teacher at Christ Church, Oxford. As a young boy, Carroll was educated at home. Like most of his siblings, he spoke with a stammer, which inhibited him socially throughout his life. He started writing poetry and short stories at a young age, contributing to the family magazine Mischmasch and later to other magazines. In his early 20s, Carroll's work was published in such national magazines as The Comic Times and The Train and in smaller publications such as the Whitby Gazette and the Oxford Critic. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was published in 1865 under his pen name of Lewis Carroll, which Dodgson had started using almost a decade earlier. The book was a huge commercial success, and he became famous as Lewis Carroll all over the world. As a result, Carroll received voluminous fan mail and a good deal of attention that he didn't particularly want. Late in 1871, Carroll published the sequel to the first Alice book, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. It was a darker book than the first title, possibly due to Carroll's depression brought on in part by his father's death in 1868.Dodgson died of pneumonia in 1898 at his sisters' home in Guildford, Surrey, two weeks before his 66th birthday. He is commemorated at All Saints' Church in Daresbury, where the stained glass windows depict characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In 1982, a memorial stone to Carroll was unveiled at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
