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Few writers have captured imaginations likeLewis Carroll.
Reginald Southey, “Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson),” 1857(Photo:Wikimedia CommonsPublic Domain)This post may contain affiliate links. If you make a purchase, My Modern Met may earn an affiliate commission. Please readour disclosurefor more info.
Ready to wander down the rabbit hole?
Learn all about literary nonsense writer Lewis Carroll with these five fanciful facts.
He was a mathematician.
John Tenniel, “The Shower of Cards”(Photo:Wikimedia CommonsPublic Domain)
In both educational parameters, Carroll was successful in his studies.
In addition to writing poetry and short stories from a young age, he excelled in mathematics.
Four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen and four times seven isoh dear!'
Lewis Carroll, Original Manuscript of “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground,” 1862-1864(Photo:The British LibraryPublic Domain)
Alice, his protagonist, says.
I shall never get to twenty at that rate!’
The novel’s curious and curiouser characters were inspired by real-life peopleand cheese.
John Tenniel, Illustration from The Nursery “Alice”, containing twenty colored enlargements from Tenniel’s illustrations to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” 1890 (Photo:Wikimedia CommonsPublic Domain)
When the cheese was eaten, from outside in, the grin was the last part to disappear.
He had a passion for photography.
Carroll used the complexwet collodion methodto produce his photographs.
Lewis Carroll, “Alice Liddell and Ferns,” 1860(Photo:Wikimedia CommonsPublic Domain)
This painstaking process required coating a glass plate with a mixture of a soluble iodide and a collodion-based solution.
Mystic, awful was the process, its second stanza concludes.
Posthumous tributes include stained glass windows, an asteroid, and even a neurological syndrome.
In the 125 years since his death, Carroll’s legacy has lived on.
