The man himself.
Real name Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, he was the author of
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel,
Through the Looking Glass, and what Alice Found There. He also wrote "
Jabberwocky" and
a poem depicting a practice we naturally find cruel and barbaric here. Also
Sylvie And Bruno and more lesser-known works.
A popular source for the
Public Domain Character and still more, the
Shout Out.
Dodgson was also a mathematician who published several works on logic. As one might expect, these are filled with
Textbook Humor and nonsensical examples, illustrating the point that in logic what matters is the form of propositions and not their content. His favorite number seems to have been 42.
He also had a hobby of photographing little girls nude.
note During the time period, children were seen as sexless and innocent, and thus the picture-taking of them was not considered perverted.Works by Lewis Carroll with their own trope pages include:
Other works by Lewis Carroll provide examples of:
- Comically Missing the Point: Citation needed, but he released Alice in Wonderland at the same time as a book of his on mathematical theory. Queen Victoria was so charmed by Alice that she requested Carroll produce another book like his latest. A short time later he sent her a new math textbook, hot off the presses.
- This story, though entertaining, is sadly apocryphal. Dodgson was asked about it and said that though he wished it had happened, it did not.
- He Also Did: Aside from his work in mathematics, he was also an Anglican deacon and in his time, a well-known photographer.
- Instructional Dialogue (though not so much in the Alice books as in his less famous mathematical writings)
- Midword Rhyme: in "Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur."
- Neologism
- Our Ghosts Are Different
- Portmanteau
- Rotating Arcs: When you start reading the puzzle-story sequence "A Tangled Tale", originally serialised in The Monthly Packet, it appears that each "Knot" (chapter) is a seperate one-off story. It's not until Knot IV that we return to the characters from Knot I, and it slowly becomes apparent that the whole thing is indeed a single tangled tale.
- Same Face, Different Name: His books on mathematics were published under his real name, Charles Dodgeson. But when it came time for him to write fantasy novels, he used the name "Lewis Carroll", the name by which he is far better known today.
- Speech Impediment: Suffered from a stutter throughout a life, which possibly inspired him caricaturing himself as the Dodo in Alice in Wonderland, referring to the difficulty he had in pronouncing the start of his own surname.
- This Is My Name On Foreign
- Thrifty Scot: In "The Lang Coortin'".
- Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
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