![]() ![]() "On the one hand the child was the source of hope, of virtue, or emotion: along with the angelic wife, he was the repository of family values which seemed otherwise to be disappearing from an increasingly secular world. This lesson plan discusses views of Victorian childhood, as detailed by LuAnn Walthe ("The Victorian Invention of Childhood"), at Victorian Web: Dodgson continued to write until his death from pneumonia in 1898, increasing the legend of "Lewis Carroll" and further obscuring Dodgson's true life from fans and biographers. Though Dodgson had published under the name Lewis Carroll before Alice's Adventures was released in 1865, it was then that the persona of Lewis Carroll was truly born. The biography details some known facts-as well as thoughtful speculation-about Dodgson's upbringing, his employment as a mathematical lecturer at Oxford, and his eventual friendship with a new Dean of Christ Church, Henry Liddell, his wife, and three daughters-including Alice-that led to the now legendary afternoon in which he sketched out the framework for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The teacher of this lesson might review this brief biography of Dodgson at the EDSITEment-reviewed Victorian Web. Lewis Carroll, of course, is Dodgson's pseudonym, the name associated with the wonderful tales of Alice and her adventures. Karoline Leach, "Lewis Carroll: A Myth in the Making" 'Lewis Carroll' was born on March 1, 1856, and is still very much alive." He lived his life and eventually died on January 14, 1898. ![]() "Charles Dodgson was born on January 27, 1832. ![]()
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