Lit Openers
Episode 4: Alice in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
Interactive Biography Chart
ESSENTIAL BIOGRAPHIC INFO |
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| Author Name: | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson | |
| Pseudonym: | Lewis Carroll He created this name by translating his first two names 'Charles Lutwige' into Latin as 'Carolus Ludovicus' then anglicising and reversing the order to form Lewis Carroll. | |
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| Date of Birth: | 27 January 1832 | |
| Place of Birth: | Daresbury, Cheshire, England | |
| Date of Death: | 14 January 1898 | |
| Time Period: | The Victorian Age (mid to late 19th century) | |
| Type of Education: | Homeschooled until 12, then formal schooling. | |
| School/University: | Richmond School in Yorkshire; Rugby school (the city of Rugby); Christ Church; university of Oxford. (Received first class honours in mathematics, remained at Oxford as a lecturer for 26 years). | |
| Places where the author lived: | Daresbury (childhood home); Croft-on-Tees; Oxford (Christ Church College). | |
| Peculiar events: | Stammer and difficulty in pronouncing his last name; magician, mathematician, avid photographer; Alice's adventures in Wonderland was first told orally to Alice Liddell (the Dean's daughter) and her sisters during a boat trip in 1862 | |
LITERARY PRODUCTION |
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Main works |
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| Complete title: | "Alice's adventures in Wonderland" (1865) | |
| Genre: | Children's fantasy, literary nonsense | |
| Synthesis: | A young, bored girl named Alice follows the White Rabbit down a hole and enters a fantastical, illogical world called Wonderland. She experiences strange shifts in size and meets a variety of bizarre, talking characters like the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, and the tyrannical Queen of Hearts. | |
Other works |
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| Title: | "Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There" (1871) | |
| Genre: | Children's fantasy, literary nonsense | |
| Brief Synthesis: | The sequel to" Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", in which Alice steps through a mirror into a world where everything is reversed and the landscape is structured like a chessboard. She meets Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Alice works towards becoming a queen. | |
| Title: | "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876) (snark = creature invented by Lewis Carroll) | |
| Genre: | Nonsense, epic poem | |
| Brief Synthesis: | A long and complex nonsense poem, detailing the sea voyage of a mixed up crew hunting for a mysterious, elusive creature called a snark, which is dangerous because it can turn out to be a fat Boojum. It is considered a masterpiece of the nonsense genre. | |
| Title: | "Symbolic Logic" (Part I) (1896) | |
| Genre: | Mathematics, logic textbook | |
| Brief Synthesis: | A serious, yet entertaining, textbook on formal logic that Dodgson wrote under his real name. It demonstrates his professional, academic interest and uses playful examples and puzzles to teach complex concepts. | |
by Ms. Anna-Maria Bellomo
Former High School English Teacher
Lit Openers
Ep 4 Alice in Wonderland ANSWERS
created for LnT by Ms. Anna-Maria Bellomo
Former High School English Teacher
Ep 4 Alice in Wonderland ANSWERS
created for LnT by Ms. Anna-Maria Bellomo
Former High School English Teacher