Through the Looking-Glass | About the Author
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, son of Frances Jane Lutwidge and the Reverend Charles Dodgson, was born January 27, 1832, at Daresbury, Cheshire, England. He attended Richmond Grammar School in Yorkshire, Rugby, and Oxford. His first literary works were poems and drawings which he contributed to the family magazine Useful and Instructive Poetry when he was thirteen. At eighteen he began contributing prose, verse, and drawings to The Rectory Umbrella. At Oxford he established himself as a free-lance humorist and published stories and poems in the Oxonian Advertiser and the...
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