DODGSON, cl5rsdn, Charles Lutwidge (Lewis CARROLL), English mathematician and author: b. Daresbury, near Warrington, 27 Jan.
1832; d. Guilford, 14 Jan. 1898. He was gradu ated from Christ College, Oxford, in 1854, took orders in the Anglican Church in 1861 and till 1881 was a mathematical lecturer. His first pub lication was 'A Syllabus of Plane Algebraical Geometry' (1860) ; in the following year he issued the 'Formula: of Plane Trigonometry' and in 1864 appeared his 'Guide to the Mathe matical Student.' He still remained quite un known to the public at large, but in the next year became famous as the author of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,' which, though written for the young, has found not less ap preciation among those of riper years and has been translated into many languages. Equally delightful is the continuation of Alice's adven tures narrated in 'Through the Looking-glass and what Alice Found There' (1871), an excep tion to the common rule as to the inferiority of continuations. Both books were admirably illus
trated by Tenniel. Dramatized versions by Saville Clark were put on the stage in 1886. 'The Hunting of the Snark : an Agony in Eight Fits> (1876), a fantastic narrative in verse, had by no means an equal popularity, however. Among his other works are 'Elementary Treatise on Determinants> (1867) ; 'Phantas magoria and other Poems' (1876) ; Euclid and His Modern Rivals' (1879) ; 'Rhyme? or (1883) ; 'A Tangled Tale' (1885) ; The Game of Logic' (1887) ; 'Curiosa Mathematica> (1888 and 1893) ; and Bruno' 0889-93), and 'Symbolic Logic' (1896). (See ALICE IN WONDERLAND; THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS). Consult his 'Life and Letters,' edited by S. D. Collingwood (London 1898), and Carroll> by B. Moses (New York 1910).