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Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer, and Anglican deacon. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871), some of the most important examples of Victorian literature. He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. His poem…
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science · British author and scholar (1832–1898) · mathematician · logician · photographer · poet · deacon · children's writer · diarist · novelist · writer · autobiographer · also Lewis Carroll, Charles Dodgson, Lewis Caroll, Lewis Carroll Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
Born 27 January 1832 · Died 14 January 1898 · Q38082
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„What’s the good of Mercator’s North Poles and Equators,Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?”So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply„They are merely conventional signs!
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2026· 3 entries
The Guardian: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland review – Lewis Carroll’s familiar characters move in from the garden
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The Guardian: Half-birthday hint hidden by Lewis Carroll | Brief letters
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2025· 2 entries
Smithsonian Magazine: Lewis Carroll’s Personal Copy of ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ Returns to Its ‘Spiritual Home’ in Oxford
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The Guardian: Lewis Carroll collection given to his Oxford college in surprise US donation
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2024· 5 entries
Washington Post: What is a Snark? For Lewis Carroll, a whimsical creature we’ll never know.
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Snopes rated the claim “Lewis Carroll said, "Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?"” Incorrect Attribution.
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The Guardian: Did you solve it? Lewis Carroll for insomniacs
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The Guardian: Can you solve it? Lewis Carroll for insomniacs
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Wall Street Journal: ‘Lewis Carroll’s Guide for Insomniacs’ Review: The March Hare’s New Inventions
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2022· 1 entry
The Guardian: Alice in Wonderland review – Carroll’s classic goes down the Victoria line
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2020· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Author Lewis Carroll wrote that "Everyone wants a magical solution for their problem, and everyone refuses to believe in magic."” Incorrect Attribution.
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2015· 2 entries
Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 18,061 times.
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Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 17,839 times.
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2004· 1 entry
“[indovinello] Che cos'hanno in comune un corvo e una scrivania? (2004, cap. VII, p. 78)”
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1996· 2 entries
Published “Assessing the quality of reports of randomized clinical trials: Is blinding necessary?” in Controlled Clinical Trials — cited 14,004 times.
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Published “Assessing the quality of reports of randomized clinical trials: Is blinding necessary?” in Controlled Clinical Trials — cited 13,986 times.
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1995· 1 entry
With a subsequent article by Simon Blackburn titled "Practical Tortoise Raising"
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1988· 3 entries
“All'egregio Piede Destro di Alice | Tappeto Davanti al Caminetto | Presso il Parafuoco | Dalla sua affezionatissima Alice. (1988; cap. II, p. 21)”
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“La ninna-nanna diceva:Se capita che il bimbo starnutisca | lo si rampogni e poi lo si punisca | non ha alcuna ragion di starnutire | e lo fa solo per infastidire.Coro(con la partecipazione della cuoca e del bambino)Ahi! Ahi! Ahi! (1988; cap. VI, p. 58)”
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“Che dice il Coccodrillo del Nilo | che batte la coda iridata | nell'ansa dall'humus profondo, | nel tonfano, nella cascata, | nel torbido fango del fondo | e sopra la sponda assolata? | «Trovato è il pasto agognato! | Trovato! Trovato!» (1988; p. 23)”
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1982· 2 entries
A memorial stone to Carroll was unveiled at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey
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His great-nephew unveiled a memorial stone to him in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey
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1979· 2 entries
Published “A Three-Dimensional Conceptual Model of Corporate Performance” in The Academy of Management Review — cited 27,741 times.
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Published “A Three-Dimensional Conceptual Model of Corporate Performance” in The Academy of Management Review — cited 24,208 times.
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1959· 1 entry
“[L. Carrol [così nel testo], Alice nel paese delle meraviglie, versione di A.B. Migliarini, Editrice Boschi, Milano, 1959]”
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1935· 1 entry
Dodgson was commemorated at All Saints' Church, Daresbury, in its stained glass windows depicting characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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1934· 1 entry
“Logical nonsense: the works of Lewis Carrol [pseud.] now, for the first time, complete - página 123, Lewis Carroll, Philip Conklin Blackburn, Lionel White - G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1934 - 568 páginas”
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1933· 1 entry
“To Janet Merriman", quoted in Letters of Lewis Carroll to his Child-Friends (1933) p. 81”
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1914· 1 entry
“Qualche cosa di straordinario mi accade tutte le volte che bevo o mangio, — disse fra sè; vediamo dunque che mi farà questa bottiglia. Spero che mi farà crescere di nuovo, perchè son proprio stanca di essere così piccina!» (1914; cap. IV)”
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1898· 27 entries
Died 1898-01-14.
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“To a girl who was frightened of traveling by train”
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“W pewnych sprawach, wiesz, ludzie, którzy nie istnieją są o wiele milsi od tych, którzy istnieją.”
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“As you have invited me, I cannot come, for I have made a rule to decline all invitations; but I will come the next day.”
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“Finalmente, nós teremos alguma diversão agora!' pensou Alice. 'Eu estou contente de eles terem começado a lançar enigmas. - Eu acredito que eu soluciono este,' acrescentou ela em voz baixa.”
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“Você poderia me dizer, por favor, qual caminho eu devo seguir?" "Isso depende muito de onde você deseja chegar.”
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“The White Knight must not have whiskers; he must not be made to look old.”
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“(Original engl.: "[..] and then the different branches of Arithmetic—Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.") - engl. Wikisource”
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“O Chapeleiro abriu bem seus olhos ao ouvir isto; mas tudo o que ele disse foi, 'Por que um corvo se parece com uma mesa de escritório?”
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“(en) If you look at other so-called children’s authors, you’ll see they never wrote directly for children. Though Lewis Carroll dedicated his book to Alice, I feel it was an afterthought once the whole was already committed to paper. Beatrix Potter declared, “I write to please myself!” And I think the same can be said of Milne or Tolkien or Laura Ingalls Wilder.”
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“Pamela L. Travers, autrice de Mary Poppins.”
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“„What’s the good of Mercator’s North Poles and Equators,Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?”So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply„They are merely conventional signs!”
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“Alice no País das Maravilhas”
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“britischer Schriftsteller, Fotograf, Mathematiker und Diakon”
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“eigentlich: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson”
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“Algunas veces he creído hasta seis cosas imposibles antes del desayuno.”
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“Voir le recueil de citations : Alice au pays des merveilles”
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“Tutto quello che vi dico tre volte è vero.”
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“Tudo tem uma moral: é só encontrá-la.”
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“Preocúpate del sentido y las palabras saldrán por cuenta propia.”
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“Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.”
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“Nie powinnam była tyle płakać (…). Spotyka mnie teraz za to taka kara, że mogę się utopić w swoich własnych łzach.”
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“¡Qué pobre memoria es aquella que sólo funciona hacia atrás!.”
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“Nie mogę się wytłumaczyć – odrzekła Alicja – ponieważ, jak pan widzi, nie jestem sobą.”
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“Si cada cual se ocupara de lo suyo, el mundo daría vueltas más aprisa.”
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“Você deve aprender a não fazer observações pessoais', Alice disse em um tom um tanto severo; 'Isto é muito rude.”
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“Todo tiene una moraleja, solo tienes que encontrarla».[Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it].”
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1895· 3 entries
“What the Tortoise Said to Achilles", Mind, n.s., 4 (1895), pp. 278–80”
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30 years after the publication of his first books, Carroll attempted a comeback, producing a two-volume tale of the fairy siblings Sylvie and Bruno
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Developed a philosophical regressus-argument on deductive reasoning in his article "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles", which appeared in one of the early volumes of Mind
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1889· 1 entry
And 1893, but the intricacy of this work and its use of "babytalk" was apparently not appreciated by contemporary readers; it achieved nothing like the success of the Alice books, with disappointing reviews and sales of
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1886· 3 entries
“To my Child-friend" in The Game Of Logic (1886)”
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“Alice's Adventures Under Ground (1886), Introduction, p. v”
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“Three Years in a Curatorship, By One Whom It Has Tried, 1886”
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1884· 1 entry
Proposed a proportional representation system based on multi-member districts, each voter casting only a single vote, quotas as minimum requirements to take seats, and votes transferable by candidates through what is
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1878· 1 entry
Invented the "doublet" (see word ladder), a form of brain-teaser that is still popular today, changing one word into another by altering one letter at a time, each successive change always resulting in a genuine word
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1876· 1 entry
Dodgson produced his next work, The Hunting of the Snark, a fantastical "nonsense" poem, with illustrations by Henry Holiday, exploring the adventures of a bizarre crew of nine tradesmen and one beaver, who set off to fi
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1871· 1 entry
Dodgson published the sequel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
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1869· 1 entry
“[..] und dann die vier Abtheilungen vom Rechnen: Zusehen, Abziehen, Vervielfraßen und Stehlen." - Alice im Wunderland. 1869, Kapitel 9, S. 134. Übersetzer: Antonie Zimmermann. Wikisource”
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1868· 1 entry
Plunged him into a depression that lasted some years
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1867· 1 entry
As an ecclesiastic, together with the Reverend Henry Liddon
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1865· 1 entry
Under the Lewis Carroll pen name, which Dodgson had first used some nine years earlier
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1864· 1 entry
“Instructions to Sir John Tenniel c.1864; quoted in Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898) p. 130”
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1863· 1 entry
Had taken the unfinished manuscript to Macmillan the publisher, who liked it immediately
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1857· 1 entry
Studied at University of Oxford (1851–1857).
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1856· 2 entries
Dean Henry Liddell arrived at Christ Church at Oxford University, bringing with him his young family, all of whom would figure largely in Dodgson's life over the following years and would greatly influence his writing ca
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Dodgson took up the new art form of photography under the influence first of his uncle Skeffington Lutwidge, and later of his Oxford friend Reginald Southey
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1855· 1 entry
Which he continued to hold for the next 26 years
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1854· 1 entry
Obtained first-class honours in the Final Honours School of Mathematics, standing first on the list, and thus graduated as Bachelor of Arts
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1852· 1 entry
Obtained first-class honours in mathematics moderations and was soon afterwards nominated to a studentship by his father's old friend Canon Edward Pusey
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1850· 1 entry
Studied at Christ Church (1849–1850).
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1849· 1 entry
Studied at Rugby School (1846–1849).
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1846· 2 entries
Dodgson entered Rugby School, where he was evidently unhappy, as he wrote some years after leaving: "I cannot say
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Studied at Richmond School (1844–1846).
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1832· 1 entry
Born 1832-01-27.
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