Dodgson,Charles Lutwidge

Dodgson,Charles Lutwidge
Dodg·son (dŏjʹsən), Charles Lutwidge. Pen name Lewis Car·roll (kărʹəl) 1832-1898.
British mathematician and writer. His stories about Alice, invented to amuse the young daughter of a friend, appear in the classics Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1872).

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