Lewis Carroll

High school (ages 12+)
Art & Creativity

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Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. When was Lewis Carroll born?January 27, 1832
2. Where was Lewis Carroll born?Daresbury, England
3. What is the career?Author, Mathematician, Logician, Photographer, Anglican Deacon
4. What is the academic affiliation?Christ Church, Oxford
5. Who was Lewis Carroll?Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematician, logician, and photographer from Oxford. He also worked as an Anglican deacon.
6. What books did he write?He wrote the famous children’s books "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865) and "Through the Looking-Glass" (1871).

Pen Name: An assumed name used by a writer instead of their legal name.
Literary Nonsense: A genre characterized by playful language, illogical narratives, and invented words.
Mathematical Logic: The application of mathematical methods to the study of formal logic and reasoning.
Portmanteau: A word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two others.