10 Wonderful Facts About Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll’s real name was Charles L. Dodgson. The pen name came about by taking his own name, Charles Lutwidge, translating it into Latin - Carolus Ludovicus, reversing the names and retranslating them into English - hence, Lewis Carroll. Born in Cheshire, Charles was the third of 11 children. Dodgson suffered from a bad stammer and was deaf in one ear. Dodgson’s first piece of work under his pen name was a romantic poem called Solitude, published in 1856 Alternative titles considered for Alice’s Ad