The Mystery Of Lewis Carroll, Jenny Woolf, c. 2010. 828WOO.
Again, bare facts are known about Lewis Carroll, but not much more. His family destroyed his personal notes as fast as possible after he died.
This particular writer's niche:
- Dodgson's bank account, Barclay's Bank, 1856 - 1900!!! The entire bank account.
- Manchester, England
- most interesting: Dodgson paid nearly one-quarter of his annual salary to someone called "Forster" in 1861, a year for which his diaries have mysteriously disappeared.
- no one knows who "Forster" was or what the payments were for
- also discovered a cache of papers in the archives of the University of Colorado;
- includes a letter that casts new light on the Liddells and the "little girls" (pun intended)
The man: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson; oldest son foo an Anglican clergyman;
- northern England
- devout Christia
- boarding school at Rugby
- came to study and live at Christ Church, Oxford, when he was 19
- lived there until he died; never married
- a mathematician by profession; photographer in his spare time
- shunned fame; made just one trip abroad; never left Britain again
- took early retirement; died just short of 66th birthday, at the home of his spinster sisters
Christ Church, Aedes Christi
- aedes: Greek for unpleasant
- aedes: Latin -- temple building, office, dwelling
- originally a monastery, then a theological college;
- often abbreviated Ch.Ch.
- still one of the wealthieest and most important institutions in Oxford
- re-founded by Henry VIII in 1546
- traditionally educated the offspring of the rich and powerful, and its foundation includes Oxford's cathedral church
- noble bldgs dominated by Tom Tower, designed by Christopher Wren
- Great Tom: the tower bell
- hourly and 101 times each night at 9:05 p.m.
- is the "site" for Harry Potter's Hogwarts' school refectory (the Grand Hall of Ch.Ch).
Chapter 1:
photograph of Lewis Carroll with 10 brothers and sisters at the Rectory, Croft-on-Tees, Yorokshire.
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