Word: dodgson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Occasionally the characters of Lewis Carroll and Charles Lutwidge Dodgson merged...
When I was a schoolgirl in Boston, over 50 years ago, we wanted to use the name "Jabberwock" for a new school paper. We wrote to the Reverend Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) to ask his permission. He replied that we might use the name, then said that "wock" was an old Anglo-Saxon word meaning "the result of," and we all knew the meaning of "jabber," therefore the paper would be the result of much excited discussion. He also said he would like to subscribe...
...father, the Reverend Walter E. Smith, published a pamphlet on proportional representation. Dodgson wrote him about this, sending a copy of Suggestions as to the Best Method of Taking Votes Where More Than Two Issues Are To Be Voted On. My father replied, pointing out that by Dodgson's method, in certain circumstances, nobody would be elected...
...what Author Lennon believes was the other major problem of his life - his religious beliefs. To be a rebel in Victorian England required unusual boldness, and while such doughty fighters as Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley and Samuel Butler were openly questioning the authority of the Church, the Rev. Mr. Dodgson was doing his utmost to quiet the tormenting questions that filled his brilliant, inquisitive mind. Cursed with insomnia, he would put himself to sleep by endless inventions of games, gadgets, toys, puzzles in mathematics; by day he would take a daily walk of 20 miles at top speed. At best...
...Take away those pillows; I shall need them no more," said Dodgson on his deathbed. "Wonderland at last!" said the nephew who buried...