1832-1898
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was the real name of the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland’s and Through the Looking Glass’ author. He was born in Daresbury, England, he was the oldest of 11 children: 4 boys and 7 girls. When he was 18 years old, he enrolled at the Oxford University, where he stayed near 50 years and where he obtained his certificate of studies. He was declared deacon of the Anglican Church and he taught Mathematics and, what is more important, where he wrote two of the most delicious works that have ever been produced in literature.
He lived 66 years as good as any person can do and his main hobby was Mathematics. He had dream problems because of Maths, thinking about how to resolve some mathematical problems. He wrote different works about this subject and the most interesting is Euclides and his modern rivals.
His stories have been known under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll. Maybe the reason of this was his shyness, that is to say, in front of adults. He had no more friends and that made him to make friendships between the children, especially with girls; he understood them perfectly and he was a perfect companion of them. He used to play with them, to invent new games and to tell them stories. The real Alice was his friend Liddell’s daughter, the deacon. Later, she related how these capricious stories, that still enjoy people from any age and country, where referred to her and her two sisters.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was published in 1864 and Through the Looking Glass in 1871. The famous English drawer John Tenniel illustrated both. Those books have been illustrated lately by many artists, but the marvellous Tenniel’s drawings still are the favourites. Other publications of Lewis Carroll are The Hunting of the Snark (1876) and Sylvie and Bruno 1889 and 1893.
| 1865 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Macmillan, London. |
| 1869 | Phantasmagoria and other poems. Macmillan, London. |
| 1872 | Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice found there. Macmillan, London. |
| 1874 | Notes by an Oxford Chiel (anonymous pamphlets), Oxford. |
| 1876 | The Hunting of the Snark. Macmillan, London. |
| 1879 | Euclid and his modern rivals, London (published with the name of C. L. Dodgson). |
| 1885 | A tangled Tale. Macmillan, London. |
| 1886 | Alice's Adventures Underground. Macmillan, London. |
| 1887 | The Game of Logic, Macmillan, London. |
| 1889 | The Nursery " Alice ". Macmillan, London. |
| 1889 | Sylvie and Bruno. Macmillan, London. |
| 1896 | Symbolic Logic, Part I. Elementary, Macmillan, London. |
| 1898 | Collingwood, Stuart, Dodgson: The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll. Unwin, London. |
| 1933 | Selection from his letters to his child-friends. Macmillan, London. |
| 1832 | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born the 27th January in Dadesbury (Manchester), 3rd kid of Charles Dodgson. |
| 1844 | He starts studying at the Rochmond School. Still now, he was educated in his family. |
| 1845 | He joins in a manuscript, titled Useful and Instructive Poetry (published in 1954) a series of infantile works that prelude his posterior literary production. |
| -- | He writes an analogous work, The Unknown One, for enjoining his family. We know it because Collingwood mentioned it, but it hasn’t been found still now. |
| 1846 | He enrols at the public school de Rugby. He starts to be interested in theatre. |
| 1850 | These works are joined at The Rectory Magazine, which never has been published in its integrity but partially in different later publications. At the same style are Guida di Bragia, published in 1931. Id. The Rectory Umbrella. He starts writing Mishmash. |
| 1851 | He enrols at the Oxford University (Christ Church). His mother dies some days later causing him an impression that people think is the reason of his return to his children world. |
| 1852 | He continues writing Mishmash and he starts publishing articles as The Lady of the Ladle and Wilhelm von Schmitz at some magazines. |
| 1854 | He obtains his master’s degree and starts preparing for the ordinance of deacon. |
| 1855 | He contacts with Edmundo Yates, the Comic Times’ director, where he publishes poetic parodies and some short stories. Yates gives him the pseudonymous of Lewis Carroll. |
| 1856 | Yates launches the magazine The Train, and Carroll writes for it comic poems. He meets Alice Liddell, 3 years old, and starts a relationship of big intimacy with her family. |
| 1857 | Dodgson publishes letters in English newspapers and starts his mathematical works at the same time he starts teaching. He starts interesting in photography and Alice poses for him. |
| 1858 | He publishes anonymously The Fifth Book of Euclid treated algebraically by a College Tutor. |
| 1860 | A Photographer's Day Out, signed by Lewis Carroll. Rules for a Court Circular and Faces in the Fire, poem where, for the first time and the last one, appears a detail of a love story. |
| 1861 | He is ordained deacon, but he renounces because of his deficiency of devotion and his failure in teaching. |
| 1862 | Mishmash and College Rhymes are published and they contain some poems by Carroll. |
| -- | He publishes A Syllabus of Plane Algebraical Geometry, signed by Dodgson, and Notes on the First Two Books of Euclid and Notes on the First Part of Algebra. |
| 1863 | His friends encourage him for publishing Alice and he does it. He publishes mathematical works, The Enunciations of Euclid, and Croquet Castles for Five Players. |
| 1864 | He publishes Examination Statute and A Guide to the Mathematical Student. |
| 1865 | He publishes The New Method of Evaluation as Applied to pi and another comic articles. The most important is the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. |
| 1866 | The Elections to the Hebdomadal Council. He starts writing to the Pall Mall Gazette about oxonian subjects and, maybe because of that, Alice’s mother quarrels with the Liddell family. |
| 1867 | He starts writing Through the Looking Glass. He travels to Russia and he makes interesting notes on his diary. He publishes in Aunt Judy's Magazine some short works signed by Carroll. |
| 1868 | His father dies and this causes on him a big impression. He publishes a satiric article about the University, The Offer of the Clarenton Trustees. He continues publishing mathematical works as The Telegraph Cipher, The Alphabet Cipher. |
| 1871 | He finishes his work Through the Loocking Glass and What Alice Found There which will be published by MacMillan and illustrated by Tenniell. |
| 1872 | The New Belfry of Christ Church and The Vision of the Three T's, are anonymous writings which attack the Liddell architectonic projects. |
| 1873 | He starts writing Silvia and Bruno. |
| 1874 | Some anterior mathematical works are collected and reedited. And the same with his oxonian works under the tittle Nores by an Oxford Chiel. |
| 1875 | Euclid Books I, II, signed by Dodgson. |
| 1876 | He starts to be concentrated on logic subjects with Professorship of Comparative Philology and A Method of taking votes on more than two isues. |
| 1877 | Different works related with Alice: An Easter Greeting to every child who loves Alice, Fame's Penny Trumpel. |
| 1878 | First apparition of mathematical and logic games with words in Word-Links. |
| 1879 | Euclid and his modern rivals, signed by Dodgson. |
| 1880 | He leaves photography because people make bad commentaries about his children nudes. So he starts drawing children nudes with Gertrude Thomson. Since 1879 he writes a series of letter to the Educational Times and some articles about rules for games for The Monthly Packet. |
| 1881 | He leaves education and his friends elect him ‘conservative’ of the College’s home. He reedits his works about Euclides. |
| 1883 | He publishes anterior poems in Rhyme and Reason? And A Tangled Tale, Christmas Greetings. |
| 1881 | He starts the adaptation of Alice for theatre and children book. |
| 1886 | Three Years in a Culatorship, more joking comments about live in the College and some articles about The Election of Proctors. |
| 1887 | Commercial edition of Game of Logic. |
| 1888 | The Stage and the Spirit of Reverence and Stage Children. |
| 1889 | Publication of Silvia and Bruno. |
| 1890 | More rules about games in Circular Billiards, and Stranger Circular, where he negates his identification with Lewis Carroll. |
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| 1892 | He finishes the publication of Papers on Logic and Challenge to Logicians. |
| 1893 | He publishes Syzygies and Lanrick and Sylvia and Bruno Concluded. |
| 1894 | He publishes anonymously Problems of Symbolic Logic, A disputed point of Logic, A Theorem in Logic, a Logical Paradox, a Logical Puzzle, y What the turtle said to Aquiles. |
| 1895 | He writes on his diary ‘I consecrate all my time to logic’ and he finishes the redaction of Symbolic Logic. |
| 1896 | Symbolical Logic, part I, elemental. Second part will never appear. |
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| 1898 | He dies the 14th January because of bronchitis, some days before he reaches attain 66 years old. |