![]() ![]() Lewis Carrol had a stammer, for which he was often teased for growing up. He had a fever as a young child that was believed to be the cause of the deafness. The story would later become Alice in Wonderland. ![]() His literary career supposedly began as the result of a picnic, where he told a young girl named Alice, a story. Lewis went on to be educated at Oxford and received high honors in mathematics. Lewis was homeschooled until he was 12 years old, at which time he was sent to Richmond Grammar School. Lewis was the oldest boy of 11 children born to his parents, and because of his father's church activities he was raised in a spacious rectory in North Yorkshire. He was born on January 27 th, 1832 in Daresbury, Cheshire, England, to Charles Dodgson, a clergyman, and Frances Jane Lutwidge. ![]() Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the author best known for Alice in Wonderland and other classic children's books. ![]()
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