• Biography and Critical Analysis of Lewis Carrol and His Work "Alice in Wonderland"

     

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Published: 20.11.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
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  • Essays 'Biography and Critical Analysis of Lewis Carrol and His Work "Alice in Wonderlan', 1.
  • Essays 'Biography and Critical Analysis of Lewis Carrol and His Work "Alice in Wonderlan', 2.
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Lewis Carroll was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson on January 27th, 1832 in Daresbury in Cheshire. He was the eldest son and third child in a family of seven girls and four boys. His parents Charles and Frances Dodgson, whom were first cousins, were Anglican clergyman and were known to be extremely religious. After being taught in public school for his secondary education, he enrolled into Christ Church, Oxford University in 1850 were he proceeded to earn his Masters in 1855. During his studies at Oxford, Dodgson grounded himself in the areas of mathematics, logic, photography, art theater, religion, medicine, and science and earned so many honors and awards in these areas that he once said, "I am getting tired of being congratulated on various subjects; there seems to be no end of it." …

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