Lewis Carroll
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LEWIS CARROLL facts Information • Lived: 27 Jan 1832 - 14 Jan • Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , 1898 (age 65) better known by his pen • Parents: Charles Dodgson · name Lewis Carroll, was an Frances Jane Lutwidge English writer of fiction ; Alice's Adventures in • Height: 6’ 0” Wonderland and its sequel • Education: Oxford Through the Looking-Glass. university They say that after the Bible and Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll is the most published author on earth! Lewis Carroll poetry Lewis Carrol was also known for his nonsense poetry. He wrote Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark . And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, Jabberwocky And burbled as it came! ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves One, two! One, two! And through and through Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! All mimsy were the borogoves, He left it dead, and with its head And the mome raths outgrabe. He went galumphing back. “Beware the Jabberwock, my son! “And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Come to my arms, my beamish boy! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!” O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” He chortled in his joy. He took his vorpal sword in hand; Long time the manxome foe he sought— ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves So rested he by the Tumtum tree Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: And stood awhile in thought. All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. Nonsense poetry Ideas for made up words Depowapers - animal fandeper -plant calomanton -biscuit balowsaper - fan koltoper - ice cream Fatymafer –caramel (type) kolondey -ice cream Lewis Carroll wasn’t just an author either! He was also a poet, a mathematician, photographer, an inventor and an Anglican deacon (he was a very good logic mathematician). Lewis Carrol puzzles examples Draw the figure shown without lifting your pencil from the paper, without retracing any edge and without crossing your own path. How many such paths are possible? Lewis Carrol puzzles examples Move exactly four of the cakes shown to make five rows with four cakes in each row. Letters • He wrote lots of letters with pictures in, they were a bit like puzzles Lewis Carroll photography Alice Lidell 1858 – thought to be the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll inventions • Nyctograph • A device invented by the writer Lewis Carroll in 1891 to guide his pen as he wrote in the dark. • He invented a new alphabet to use it. In memory • In 1982, a memorial stone to Carroll was unveiled in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey. Here is video about Lewis Carroll https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=bXeW2ixpfoA& feature=emb_logo.