The great puzzle: Lewis Carroll and the child who inspired his most famous work
Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a teacher of mathematics at Oxford and a deacon of the Anglican Church, was said to be a “pure in heart”, devout scholar. But most of the world knows Dodgson as Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The English author’s interests spanned literature, mathematics, logic, art, photography, theatre, religion, and science. His most notable works may be Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871), but he was also known for…