Lewis Carroll

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Lewis Carroll is the pen-name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, professor of mathematics in Oxford and a pioneer photographer, who achieved lasting fame through his children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Dodgson was homeschooled until he was 12. After three years at the Rugby School, he said "no earthly consideration" would ever get him to return to that boarding school, due to mistreatment from the other boys[1]

  1. "I cannot say ... that any earthly considerations would induce me to go through my three years again ... I can honestly say that if I could have been ... secure from annoyance at night, the hardships of the daily life would have been comparative trifles to bear." Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll): A Brief Biography by Karoline Leach