Knowra Lewis Carroll Lewis Carroll Lewis Carroll was the pen name of English writer and mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898). He is best known for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson : Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was an English writer, mathematician, and photographer who published fiction as Lewis Carroll. Carroll was Dodgson’s pen name; the distinction shaped how his literary and academic lives were presented.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland : Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel in which Alice enters a world governed by unstable rules and eccentric characters. This is Carroll’s best-known book and the first Alice novel.
Mathematical logic : Mathematical logic studies formal systems, proof, and the structure of valid reasoning using mathematical methods. Carroll’s interest in logic informed his puzzles and his comic treatment of reasoning.
Christ Church, Oxford : Christ Church is a constituent college of the University of Oxford, founded in 1546. Dodgson studied and taught mathematics there, and its community included the Liddell family.
Jabberwocky : “Jabberwocky” is a nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll, first published in Through the Looking-Glass. Its invented vocabulary demonstrates Carroll’s influence on literary language and word formation.
Alice Liddell : Alice Liddell was the daughter of Henry Liddell and a childhood friend of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Her name and childhood connection to Dodgson became inseparable from the origins of Alice’s adventures.
Through the Looking-Glass : Through the Looking-Glass is Lewis Carroll’s 1871 sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Its chessboard journey extends Carroll’s Alice fiction through reversals, games, and poetic nonsense.
Symbolic logic : Symbolic logic represents logical relationships with formal symbols and rules of inference. Carroll wrote logic textbooks and used symbolic reasoning as material for playful puzzles.
University of Oxford : The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. Dodgson’s academic career unfolded within Oxford’s collegiate and scholarly life.
Cheshire Cat : The Cheshire Cat is a fictional character in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, known for appearing and disappearing while conversing with Alice. The character’s paradoxical remarks became among Carroll’s most recognizable contributions to popular culture.
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