What are some less known facts about Lewis Carroll?

Tuesday, January 27 would have been the 182nd birthday of Lewis Carroll (1832–1898), born Charles Lutwidge Dawson, famed creator of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This year also marks the sesquicentennial of Alice. read more

Facts about Lewis Carroll 5: the birthplace. The birthplace of Carroll was at Daresbury in Cheshire. He is the eldest boy in the family. Facts about Lewis Carroll 6: the early youth life. Carroll received his education at home when he was still young. The family archives preserved the reading lists of Carroll. read more

Alice Liddell is well known to have been the inspiration behind Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, but what is less well known is that she wasn’t the girl who inspired the Alice in the follow-up book, Through the Looking-Glass: the ‘Alice’ in that book’s subtitle, And What Alice Found There, refers to Carroll’s five year-old cousin, Alice Theodora Raikes. read more