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Chapter One Introduction Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll, as he was to become widely known), anAnglican priest, is a mathematician and a logician. He is also an excellent photographer, aChurch Deacon as well as a writer of children's literature. He was bomn on January 27, 1832in a lttle parsonage of Daresbury in Cheshire and his father was a country parson there. Hewas the eldest son and the third child of eleven children family. As Charles grew into hisboyhood, he turned to be bright and articulate. He was diligent enough that he read a lot ofbooks such as“The Pilgrim 's Progress" at age of seven. He was first educated at home thenwas sent to Richmond School of Rugby to study. He went to Oxford when he reachedeighteen years old (January, 1951) and after two years' study in Christ Church which was alsohis father's old college, he became a mathematical lecturer there. At first of his lectureshipmany of his students were older and richer than him. Most of them were bored of his teachingand didn't like studying very much. Charles didn't enjoy teaching them, either. However he 1continued to teach mathematics for twenty six years there. In his whole life, Charles was shy and not good at making conversation with adults,When talking with adults, he spoke broken word and wasn't able to express himself becauseof stammer. But things turned out to be different when he was staying with his child friends.His speaking problem was immediately gone. He got along with children quite well and hetried his best to make them happy through his far-reaching imagination and vivid storytelling.Through Charles' diary we can see that he kept touch with many of his lttle friends with lettercommunications. There was the rumor that his special feeling to children which might doharm to children and some people accused him of pedophilia which was a nightmare hauntingthe whole of his life. Children's parents were shocked and claimed to break relationship toDodgson. Whether the rumor was true or not, there is no way to verify, for there were somany mysteries around this man. However we would like to believe that his feeling is out ofthe cult of childhood and he just adored their innocence. He was a man with wide interests. Aswe have known that, he is a logician, mathematician, gifted photographer. He is most famousas an author with his pen name Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is Lewis Carroll's first book for children. It soonenjoyed great popularity since its publication and is considered the one of the best children'sbooks ever writen. It is translated into many languages and is widely loved all over the world.Except the Bible, no book is so widely and so frequently translated or referenced as the Alicebook. Surprisingly, so great a book came into being only by an accident. It all began on a Chapter One Introduction “golden afternoon”in 1862, and Charles Lutwidge Dodgson took his colleague Dean's threedaughters on a trip to island of Isis with another Oxford colleague. During the jourmey, thethree girls requested Dodgson to tell them stories. Then he made up a story about a litle girlnamed after Alice, one of the three girls who was his favorite. In this story Alice falls downthe rabbit hole and she then starts her adventure in Wonderland. It was so interesting andfascinating that Alice begged Dodgson to write it down for her. Two and a half years later,Dodgson gave his young friend the finished manuscript with his own ilsrations as aChristmas gift. He lent a draft of the story to his friend Mr. and Mrs. George MacDonald whowere supposed to have good taste and judgment. The couple read the very story to their ownchildren who seemed to love the story very much. Then Macdonald and his wife urgedDodgson to publish it. Later Dodgson found himself a Publisher Macmillan who would like toprint children's book. After the book was illustrated by famous political illustrator JohnTemniel the hook was finallv mhlished in 1865