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Lewis Carroll - pseudonym of British author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
A female given name, a less common spelling of Carol
An Irish surname derived from the Irish Ó Cearbhaill
A male given name transferred from the surname
An Irish surname derived from the Gaelic Ó Cearbhaill
{i} family name; Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, English mathematician and writer, author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass
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English author; Charles Dodgson was an Oxford don of mathematics who is remembered for the children's stories he wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

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Charles Carroll
born Sept. 19, 1737, Annapolis, Md. died Nov. 14, 1832, Baltimore, Md., U.S. American patriot leader. He attended Jesuit colleges in Maryland and studied law in France and England. He served on Committees of Correspondence, signed the Declaration of Independence, and served in the Continental Congress (1776-78). He was a U.S. senator (1789-92)
Lewis Carroll
pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898, English mathematician and writer, author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass")
Lewis Carroll
a British writer who wrote two very famous children's stories, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. His real name was Charles Dodgson, and he was also a teacher of mathematics at Oxford University (1832-98). orig. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson born Jan. 27, 1832, Daresbury, Cheshire, Eng. died Jan. 14, 1898, Guildford, Surrey British logician, mathematician, and novelist. An unmarried deacon and a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Oxford, he enjoyed the company of young girls. His novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865; illustrated by John Tenniel) is based on stories he told to amuse young friends, especially Alice Liddell. Its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871), describes Alice's further adventures. The two books, full of whimsy but also of sophisticated wit and puzzles, became among the most famous and admired children's books in the world. Carroll's other works include the narrative nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark (1876) and the children's novels Sylvie and Bruno (1889) and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893). He was also an important early portrait photographer
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