Lewis Carroll

English writer and mathematician, 1832–1898. Explained quotes.

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About Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematics lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford. He made up Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland for Alice Liddell and her sisters on a boat trip in 1862, and published it in 1865, followed by Through the Looking-Glass in 1871.

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“Curiouser and curiouser!”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 2, 1865
“We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 6 (the Cheshire Cat), 1865
“Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 12 (the King), 1865