Category: Biographies
There was once a little boy whose name was _not_ Lewis Carroll. He was christened Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, in the parish church of Daresbury, England, where he was born, on January 27, 1832. A little out-of-the-way village was Daresbury, a name derived from a word meaning oak...
When the question of dramatizing the "Alice" books was placed before the author, by Mr. Savile Clarke, who was to undertake the work, he consented gladly enough. It was to be an...
9. CHAPTER IX.Six years had passed since _Alice_ took her trip through Wonderland, and, strange to say, she had not grown very much older, for Time has the trick of standing still in Fairylan...
7. CHAPTER VII.A certain little girl who had been poring over "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There" with eager interest, when asked which of the "Alices" she preferred, answer...
10. CHAPTER X.There is no doubt that the second "Alice" book was quite as successful as the first, but regarding its merit there is much difference of opinion. As a rule the "grown-ups" prefe...
13. CHAPTER XII.In a little poem called "A Sea Dirge," which Lewis Carroll wrote about this time, we find some very strange, uncomplimentary remarks, considering the fact that most of his vacat...
8. CHAPTER VIII.The popularity of "Alice in Wonderland" was a never-ending source of surprise to the author, who had only to stand quietly by and rake in his profits, as edition after edition w...
5. CHAPTER V.We have traveled over the years with some speed, from the time that little Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was christened by his proud papa to the moment when the same proud father hea...
4. CHAPTER IV.On January 24, 1851, just three days before his nineteenth birthday, Charles Dodgson took up his residence at Christ Church, and from that time to the day of his death his name...
6. CHAPTER VI.We generally speak of Oxford-on-the-Thames. Indeed, if we were to journey by water from London to Oxford, we would certainly go by way of the Thames, and a pleasant journey that...
12. Chapter IV......Hit or Miss.To be sure this is not a "play" book, and even as a "game" it is one which requires a great deal of systematic thinking and reasoning. The girl who has reached thinking and reas...
2. CHAPTER II.With the removal to Croft, Mr. Dodgson was brought more and more into prominence; he was appointed examing chaplain to the Bishop of Ripon, and finally he was made Archdeacon of...
1. CHAPTER I.There was once a little boy whose name was _not_ Lewis Carroll. He was christened Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, in the parish church of Daresbury, England, where he was born, on Jan...
15. CHAPTER XIV.This beautiful dedication to little Isa Bowman, on the front page of "Sylvie and Bruno," was much prized by her on account of the double acrostic cleverly woven in the lines. Th...
3. CHAPTER III.When Charles came home on his holiday visits, he was undoubtedly the busiest person at Croft Rectory. We must remember there were ten eager little brothers and sisters who wante...
16. CHAPTER XV.Love was indeed the keynote of Lewis Carroll's life. It was his rule, which governed everything he did, whether it was a lecture on mathematics or a "nonsense" story to a group...
11. CHAPTER XI.Lewis Carroll had a mind which never rested in waking hours, and as is the case with all such active thinkers, his hours of sleeping were often broken by long stretches of wakef...