Primary Source Spotlight: Lewis Carroll

The Lewis Carroll Scrapbook

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Oxford and amateur photographer but he is better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll (1832-1898).

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson: A Chronology of His Life

The Lewis Carroll Scrapbook 1855-1898

Lewis Carroll Lewis Carroll Biography Bio

The life and letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson) 1899

Historic U.S. newspaper articles mentioning Lewis Carroll

Rhyme? and reason? by Louis Carroll 1884

The Lewis Carroll birthday book c 1905

The hunting of the snark, an agony, in eight fits by Lewis Carroll 1902

 The hunting of the snark, and other poems and verses by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by Peter Newell 1903

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 1928 digitized for online reading

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland retold in words of one syllable by Mrs. J.C. Gorham 1905 (.pdf)

A dramatization of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the looking glass” by Alice Gerstenberg 1915

Alice in Wonderland : a play : compiled from Lewis Carroll’s stories Alice in Wonderland and Through the looking-glass and what Alice found there by Emily Prime Delafield 1898

Literature Links: Alice in Wonderland ideas for teaching with primary sources