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Carroll, Lewis
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...Lewis Carroll, pseud. of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832–98, English writer...Collingwood, Life and Letters (1898, repr. 1968); E. Wakeling, Lewis Carroll, Photographer (2002); biography by M. N. Cohen (1995), mathematical......
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bestiary
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......Middle English Poets (1914). Variations of the genre remain popular. Modern authors who have written bestiaries include Lewis Carroll, James Thurber, T. H. White, and Jorge Luis Borges. See W. Clark and M. McMunn, Beasts and Birds of the Middle Ages......
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children's literature
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......Louis Stevenson's Child's Garden of Verses (1885) set the style for much of the poetry written for children today. Lewis Carroll's twin masterpieces Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1872) combine lunacy and......
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dodo (extinct bird)
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......rats they brought to Mauritius slaughtered the birds and destroyed its eggs, and it became extinct in roughly 50 years. The dodo appears in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, where it may be the author's surrogate....
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children's book illustration
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......English version of Grimm's Fairy Tales (1824) were created by George Cruikshank. John Tenniel's remarkable drawings for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) remain unsurpassed. His art creates a visual framework through which the......
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Liddell, Henry George
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......Church, Oxford. Liddell is famous for his compilation of the Greek-English Lexicon (with Robert Scott, 1843). It was his daughter, Alice Liddell (d. 1934), for whom Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland....
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parody
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......mocking imitation in verse or prose of a literary work. The following poem by Robert Southey was parodied by Lewis Carroll: "You are old, Father William," the young man cried; "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale......
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pseudonym
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......de plume (pen name). Famous examples in literature are George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), O. Henry (William Sydney Porter), Stendhal (Marie Henri Beyle), and George Sand......
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Llandudno
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......NW Wales, on a point of land jutting into the Irish Sea. Llandudno is a popular seaside resort with a mild climate. It is where Lewis Carroll told Alice Liddell the stories upon which Alice's Adventures in Wonderland are based....
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Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge
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...Charles Lutwidge Dodgson: see Carroll, Lewis....