Word: dodgson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...especially hot day, they left the boat in the sedges by the river and went to sit near a hayrick where it was shady. Alice, who was sometimes a little brash in her behavior, wanted someone to tell her a story. So Mr. Dodgson began it, while the sleepy children listened. "Alice," he said, "was getting very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what...
Sixty-five years ago, when Alice Pleasance Liddell was 12 years old, she used often to talk to a friend of her father's called Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He was an instructor in mathematics at Christ Church, one of the colleges of Oxford. Alice Liddell's father, a member of the team of Liddell and Scott, famed in all schools and colleges for their Greek Lexicon, was Dean of Christ Church. Mr. Dodgson too had done some writing. Some of it, mathematical treatises and such, he had published under his own name. Other and lighter works, such...
When the summer was over, Mr. Dodgson wrote down his story and gave it to Alice Liddell for a Christmas present. It was called Alice's Adventures Underground; there were about 40 pictures in it and a tremendous number of conversations. The meticulous manuscript which Mr. Dodgson gave to Alice was read by some of his friends as well as, doubtless, by hers. Eventually, he was persuaded to write out his story again for a publisher to print. This version was not exactly like the first one; it was called Alice in Wonderland, and it contained a great many...
...illustrated by Sir John Tenniel, famed Punch cartoonist. In the first edition, the illustrations were so blurred that purchasers were advised to return their copies in exchange for nice clean second editions. From the start, Alice in Wonderland was a huge success. Queen Victoria wrote to Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and asked him to send her some of his other books, whereupon, anxious to preserve the distinction between C. L. Dodgson and the frivolous Lewis Carroll, he sent her A Syllabus of Plane Algebraic Geometry, An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, and Euclid, Book V., Proved Algebraically. Years later, Lewis Carroll...
Yesterday the press reported the sale of "Alice in Wonderland" in the original manuscript for more than fifteen thousand pounds. A first edition brought five hundred pounds. Thus does it come about that the fame of whimsical Lewis Carroll dwarfs that of learned Professor Dodgson...