Wonderbusiness

Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym by which he is known in the history of literature Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Daresbury, Cheshire, on January 27, 1832 – Guildford, Surrey, on January 14, 1898), an Anglican priest, logical, mathematician, photographer and British writer, best known for his book Alice in Wonderland.

The young Charles began his education in their own home. His intellectual precocity was extraordinary. It has been said that he suffered a childhood trauma when he was forced to counteract its natural tendency to be left-handed, although there is no evidence in this regard. It suffered from another handicap: a stutter that affected him in his social relationships throughout life. He also suffered from deafness in his right ear as a result of disease.

In 1851 he moved to the Oxford University. He was exceptionally gifted and obtained excellent results with ease. In 1857 reached a post of professor of mathematics who would play over the next 26 years. Four years later he was ordained as a deacon.

At Oxford he was diagnosed with epilepsy, which was a considerable social stigma. However, recently John R. Hughes, director of the Illinois University (Chicago), has suggested that it may have been a diagnostic error.

It was on an excursion, specifically, on its day, July 4,1862, when Dodgson invented the plot of the story that later would become his first and biggest commercial success. He and his friend, the Rev. Robinson Duckworth, led to the three Liddell sisters (Lorina, thirteen years, Alice, ten, and Edith, of eight) for a ride on Thames by barge. According to Dodgson’s own tales of Alice Liddell and Duckworth, the author improvised narration, which excited the girls, especially Alice. After the tour, Alice asked him to write the story. Dodgson spent a night composing the manuscript, and he gave to Alice Liddell in the following Christmas. The manuscript was titled Alice’s Underground Adventures and was illustrated with pictures of himself. There is speculation that the heroine of the story is based on Alice Liddell, but Dodgson denied that the character was based on a real person.

In 1864, Lewis Carroll was about to publish Alice in Wonderland. In January of that year, Carroll asked John Tenniel’s illustrations make the book. The latter what he thought several months, until he agreed in April to illustrate the book with 34 drawings, in exchange for a payment of £ 138 pounds. For illustrations, Tenniel received precise instructions from Carroll, to ensure that the illustrations reflect the world of Wonderland as its author imagined. Even Carroll gave him a photograph of the girl Mary Hilton Badcock for the use as a model for Alice. It is not known whether Tenniel accepted the proposal. On the one hand, so it can be seen in the pictures, it seems that, yes, because that Tenniel drew Alice is very similar to Badcock. But in some way, Carroll wrote a letter that suggests that Tenniel ignored the recommendation.