Lewis Carrol

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Lewis Carroll was a shy Oxford academic who loved playing the butterfly catcher and chasing girls. He also wrote some of the most brilliant, silly, nonsensical books in history. Intriguingly, Carroll’s life and work are both shrouded in mystery. One moment he is an awkward Victorian schoolmaster, the next he is a cheeky young lover of women with no apparent interest in them beyond their petticoats. In this article, we will look at 10 facts about Lewis Carroll that you may not know.

Carroll was actually a shy boy

Carroll was born in 1832 and grew up in Daresbury in the English countryside. He was an only child who loved reading and studying. He was a bit of a loner who made friends slowly and who was painfully shy. At school, he met and fell in love with his first great love, a girl called Gertrude Chataway. Sadly, she died of a fever when Carroll was only 15. Carroll never fell in love again. Instead, he became a hermit who hid himself away with books, butterflies, and girls. He enjoyed the company of children and preferred it to that of adults.

Carroll loved to play the role of a child

We know that Carroll loved the company of children. Perhaps he also wanted to re-live his youth and play the part of a child. Perhaps he found that children were less judgmental, less stringent with the rules, and more accepting. Carroll liked to “dress up” as a child and would sometimes be seen wearing a child’s outfit. He liked to spend time with children and played games with them. When people would come to call on Carroll, he would often be found playing with the children in his house and gardens. He liked to make up games and puzzles for them. Carroll was also known to be a very generous man. He loved to give presents to children. He also liked to photograph children and kept several albums of photos of them.

He spent his time writing and photographing girls.

Carroll was a shy man with few friends. He loved to spend time with children but did not like to be around adults. He spent much of his time writing and photographing girls. Carroll was the first photographer to use the “close-up” and was an avid user of the close-up lens. He spent hours getting up close and personal with girls’ faces and clothing. Carroll’s close-up photography was as strange and unusual in his day as it is today. People found it odd and disturbing. Carroll’s obsession with photographing girls’ faces and clothing led to rumours that he was a pervert. Carroll was a huge fan of the art of photography. He loved taking pictures of girls’ faces, their expressions and their clothing. He took thousands of photographs of girls. When the first cameras were invented, Carroll was one of the first people to buy one. He filled his house with cameras, lenses, and photographic equipment. He was an excellent photographer who was admired by many of his contemporaries.

He met and fell in love with Alice Liddell

Carroll was the dean of the girl’s school run by the Liddell family. He met the eldest daughter, Alice, when she was just 10 years old. Alice was a bright and curious child who liked to ask lots of questions. She and Carroll became great friends. Carroll liked to play the part of a child at a child’s level. He liked to ask lots of questions and loved to hear the answers. This was likely how he met Alice and fell in love with her. Carroll wrote of Alice that she was a girl “who could think outside the box” and who was “curiously wise” for her age. Carroll was the first person to read Alice in Wonderland. He helped her write it and published it through his own publishing company. Carroll was in love with Alice. Sadly, she barely knew he existed. The two were close friends, but that was as far as it went. Alice was not interested in Carroll in any other way. Carroll’s love for Alice was the inspiration for “Alice in Wonderland”.

He wrote “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” for Alice

Carroll loved Alice dearly and was in love with her. But she didn’t know it and had no interest in him as a romantic partner. He also knew that, despite being a brilliant and wonderful girl, she would never be able to marry him. The rules of the day meant that a man like Carroll, a schoolmaster, could not marry a girl like Alice, a member of the aristocracy. Carroll was a good writer but not a great one. He decided to write a book for Alice and to use his imagination in the hope that she would find it wonderful. He decided to write a children’s story about a little girl who falls down a rabbit hole into a world of crazy characters and nonsensical situations. Carroll created a character based on Alice and named her “Alice”. He also created a character based on himself and called him “Lewis Carroll”. He finished writing the book and presented it to Alice as a gift. She loved it and called it “wonderful”. He was in tears when she told him that the book was wonderful and that she loved it. Alice in Wonderland was first published in 1865. It was an instant bestseller and has become one of the most famous books in history.

Many people believe that he had an affair with Alice Liddell’s sister, Edith. However, there is no solid evidence that this is true.

Carroll often visited the Liddell family and often took Alice and her siblings for walks in the countryside. He was very close to the family and to Edith in particular. There are many rumours that he had an affair with Edith. However, there is no solid evidence for this. Indeed, there is plenty of evidence that it didn’t happen.

Carroll was a devout Christian but also believed strongly in equality for women and men.

Carroll was a devout Christian who spent most of his time with children. He wished to be a clergyman as a young man, but his family had no money to send him to university. He loved children and often argued that they should be treated as adults. He believed that they should be given the same rights and respect as adults. His Christian faith caused him to treat all children with respect. He did not like to see them being treated as lesser beings or as silly and stupid. He believed that society should treat women as equals and be treated as such. He argued that they should be given the same rights as men.

His death was likely suicide by chloroform inhalation

Carroll was a shy man who retreated into a world of books and children. He did this for most of his adult life and was successful in his pursuit as a public teacher of literature. However, towards the end of his life, his interest in children started to fade. This coincided with him discovering a love for poetry and literature. He stopped photographing girls and wrote poetry instead. Carroll also asked Alice Liddell to marry him and she accepted. This was a strange request since Carroll was a shy man who had to ask for a woman’s hand in marriage. It was very uncharacteristic of him and caused many people to wonder what was going on. Carroll soon fell in love with another girl, a young woman called Gwen. He stopped visiting the Liddell family and spending time with Alice. He became angry when his photograph of Alice was printed in an article about Alice in Wonderland. He started drinking more heavily and was more withdrawn.

Conclusion

Carroll was a shy, awkward man who loved playing the role of a child. He spent his time photographing girls, writing and drinking heavily. He was a great lover of photography, literature, and children’s education. He was a shy man who loved to play the part of a child. He spent his time photographing girls and writing.