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Happy Birthday Lewis Carroll! Remembering the fantasy writer on his 187th birth anniversary

27 Jan 2019, 04:30AM ISTSource: TNN

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, popularly known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, was an English author of the Victorian Era. Dodgson was born on January 27, 1832, at Daresbury, Cheshire. He was a mathematician, poet, satirist, philosopher, inventor, and photographer. But, we all know him best as a children’s author of Alice in Wonderland. He wrote 11 books on Mathematics. His work in the fields of linear algebra, geometry, and puzzle-making is significant. He was an accomplished photographer. Portrait of poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson was taken by him is worth mentioning.

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