"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. Its narrative course, structure, characters, and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature,"
"as ""Carroll Lewis"" and then reversed to make ""Lewis Carroll"". This pseudonym was chosen by editor Edmund Yates from a list of four submitted by Dodgson, the others being Edgar Cuthwellis, Edgar U. C. Westhill, and Louis Carroll. In 1856, Dean (i.e., head of the college) Henry Liddell arrived at Christ Church, bringing with him his young family, all of whom would figure largely in Dodgson's life over the following years, and would greatly influence his writing career. Dodgson became close friends with Liddell's wife Lorina and their children, particularly the three sisters Lorina, Edith, and Alice Liddell. He was"
"may use different pen names for each, sometimes with no attempt to conceal a true identity. Romance writer Nora Roberts writes erotic thrillers under the pen name J. D. Robb (such books are titled ""Nora Roberts writing as J. D. Robb""); Scots writer Iain Banks wrote mainstream or literary fiction under his own name and published science fiction under Iain M. Banks; Samuel Langhorne Clemens used the aliases Mark Twain and Sieur Louis de Conte for different works. Similarly, an author who writes both fiction and non-fiction (such as the mathematician and fantasy writer Charles Dodgson, who wrote as Lewis"
"Charles Felton Pidgin Charles Felton Pidgin (November 11, 1844 - June 3, 1923) was an American author, statistician, and inventor. He is best known for his 1900 novel ""Quincy Adams Sawyer"", which became successful largely due to a big marketing campaign, and was adapted for the stage and silent film. He was born on November 11, 1844 in Roxbury, Massachusetts to Mary E. Felton and Benjamin Gordon Pidgin. As a young child, Pidgin was rendered lame by an accident to his hip, and he was also partially blind for a number of years. He graduated from The English High School"
"Laurence C. Hodgson Laurence Curran Hodgson (November 6, 1874 – March 24, 1937) was an American newspaper journalist, poet, and politician from Saint Paul, Minnesota. Hodgson was a newspaper reporter and columnist, writing at different times for the ""Minneapolis Times"" and the ""St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press"". He had a column that appeared daily on the back page of the ""Dispatch"" called ""Cabbages and Kings,"" a reference to Lewis Carroll's poem, ""The Walrus and the Carpenter."" He commonly wrote under the pen name ""Larry Ho."" The name came about when he had written his first feature article for the ""Times"". He"
"in books; a device for helping a bedridden invalid to read from a book placed sideways; and at least two ciphers for cryptography. Within the academic discipline of mathematics, Dodgson worked primarily in the fields of geometry, linear and matrix algebra, mathematical logic, and recreational mathematics, producing nearly a dozen books under his real name. Dodgson also developed new ideas in linear algebra (e.g., the first printed proof of the Kronecker–Capelli theorem), probability, and the study of elections (e.g., Dodgson's method) and committees; some of this work was not published until well after his death. His occupation as Mathematical Lecturer"
"(1730-1795). Mark Dodgson Mark Dodgson (born 1 May 1957) is an Australian academic and author. His research on the innovation process has influenced innovation management and policy worldwide. Born in Norwich, UK, he grew up in Wales and Uganda, where his father was pilot to Presidents Milton Obote and Idi Amin. He is the brother of author, Philip Pullman. After a number of years working as a lorry driver and drayman in London, Dodgson completed his PhD in two years at Imperial College London and worked at the Science Policy Research Unit at University of Sussex for eight years. During"
"Douglas, Xania, Patrick, Alexia, Hugh, William, Ilaria , Thomas, Edward and Athena. Ross Leckie Ross Leckie (born May 6, 1957) is a Scottish writer of historical novels, best known for his ""Carthage"" trilogy. He is not to be confused with the Canadian poet of the same name. Ross Leckie attended Drumtochty Castle Preparatory School and Fettes College; at Fettes he gained his interest in classical literature. He studied classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he was also President of the Junior Common Room. After that he became a fund manager at Artemis as well as writing novels and now"
"most of his life as a scholar and teacher. Alice Liddell, daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, Henry Liddell, is widely identified as the original for ""Alice in Wonderland"", though Carroll always denied this. Dodgson's family was predominantly northern English (with Irish connections), conservative and high church Anglican. Most of Dodgson's male ancestors were army officers or Church of England clergy. His great-grandfather, also named Charles Dodgson, had risen through the ranks of the church to become the Bishop of Elphin. His paternal grandfather, another Charles, had been an army captain, killed in action in Ireland in 1803 when"
"Charles Dickinson (author) Charles Dickinson (born June 4, 1951) is an American writer known for his literary novels which often mix realism with winsome absurdity. His books include, in the order of their publication: ""Waltz in Marathon"" (1983), ""Crows"" (1985), ""With or Without"" (a short story collection; 1987), ""The Widows' Adventures"" (1989), ""Rumor Has It"" (1991), ""A Shortcut in Time"" (2003) and its sequel, ""A Family in Time"" (2012). HarperCollins publishers will be making his first five books available as e-books within the next year. His short fiction and non-fiction pieces have appeared in ""Atlantic Monthly"", ""Esquire"", ""The New Yorker"","
"Hodgson, edited and published a book called ""Howdy Folks: Selections from the Writings, Verse and Speeches of Larry Ho."" Laurence C. Hodgson Laurence Curran Hodgson (November 6, 1874 – March 24, 1937) was an American newspaper journalist, poet, and politician from Saint Paul, Minnesota. Hodgson was a newspaper reporter and columnist, writing at different times for the ""Minneapolis Times"" and the ""St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press"". He had a column that appeared daily on the back page of the ""Dispatch"" called ""Cabbages and Kings,"" a reference to Lewis Carroll's poem, ""The Walrus and the Carpenter."" He commonly wrote under the pen"
"widely assumed for many years to have derived his own ""Alice"" from Alice Liddell; the acrostic poem at the end of ""Through the Looking-Glass"" spells out her name in full, and there are also many superficial references to her hidden in the text of both books. It has been noted that Dodgson himself repeatedly denied in later life that his ""little heroine"" was based on any real child, and he frequently dedicated his works to girls of his acquaintance, adding their names in acrostic poems at the beginning of the text. Gertrude Chataway's name appears in this form at the"
"Fitzhugh Dodson Fitzhugh J. Dodson (1923, Baltimore, Maryland – May 2, 1993, Long Beach, California) was an American clinical psychologist, lecturer and educator. He wrote several popular books including the best-selling ""How to Parent"". Dodson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, United States in 1923. His father also bore the name Fitzhugh J. Dodson (born c. 1886 in Virginia) and his mother was Lillian M. Dodson, née Northam (born c. 1890 in Maryland). He attended high school in Baltimore, living at 704 Wyndhurst Avenue with his parents, younger sister and maternal grandparents. He went on to graduate cum laude with a"
"Lawrence Donovan Lawrence Louis Donovan (July 1885–March 11, 1948) was an American pulp fiction writer who wrote nine ""Doc Savage"" novels under the pseudonym Kenneth Robeson, a pen name that was used by other writers of the same publishing house. However, there are nine Doc Savage novels duly credited to Donovan, published between November 1935 and July 1937. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio in July 1885, he worked as a press feeder in Covington, Kentucky before becoming a newspaperman. Donovan later became a copyreader and journalist for the San Francisco ""Call-Bulletin"" and the Vancouver ""Sun"", as well as city editor for"
"his pen name than his real name. One famous example of this is Samuel Clemens writing under the pen name Mark Twain. British mathematician Charles Dodgson, who wrote fantasy novels under the pen name Lewis Carroll and mathematical treatises under his own name, refused to open letters addressed to him as ""Lewis Carroll"". Some authors, such as Harold Robbins, use several literary pseudonyms. Some pen names have been used for long periods, even decades, without the author's true identity being discovered, such as Elena Ferrante and Torsten Krol. Some pen names are not strictly pseudonyms, as they are simply variants"
"never knew. Robert Cigar has moved into the home of his biology teacher, Ben Ladysmith. That Ben has been missing for two years is just one of the mysteries enriching this brilliant novel. Robert annoys, infuriates and loves Ben's family—and helps them find a way through their grief. Charles Dickinson (author) Charles Dickinson (born June 4, 1951) is an American writer known for his literary novels which often mix realism with winsome absurdity. His books include, in the order of their publication: ""Waltz in Marathon"" (1983), ""Crows"" (1985), ""With or Without"" (a short story collection; 1987), ""The Widows' Adventures"" (1989),"
"first wife Lizzie Abbott Dane in 1867, and she died the following year. In 1873 he married Lucy Sturtevant Gardner, who became a doctor and practiced medicine until her death in 1896. His third wife, married in 1897, was Frances Fern Douglas. Pidgin died at his home in Melrose Highlands, Massachusetts on June 3, 1923. Charles Felton Pidgin Charles Felton Pidgin (November 11, 1844 - June 3, 1923) was an American author, statistician, and inventor. He is best known for his 1900 novel ""Quincy Adams Sawyer"", which became successful largely due to a big marketing campaign, and was adapted for"
"was prominent in the Coconut Grove art scene in the 1960s. His brother Patrick Donovan worked as a law enforcement officer in New Jersey. Lawrence Donovan Lawrence Louis Donovan (July 1885–March 11, 1948) was an American pulp fiction writer who wrote nine ""Doc Savage"" novels under the pseudonym Kenneth Robeson, a pen name that was used by other writers of the same publishing house. However, there are nine Doc Savage novels duly credited to Donovan, published between November 1935 and July 1937. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio in July 1885, he worked as a press feeder in Covington, Kentucky before becoming"
"Mark Dodgson Mark Dodgson (born 1 May 1957) is an Australian academic and author. His research on the innovation process has influenced innovation management and policy worldwide. Born in Norwich, UK, he grew up in Wales and Uganda, where his father was pilot to Presidents Milton Obote and Idi Amin. He is the brother of author, Philip Pullman. After a number of years working as a lorry driver and drayman in London, Dodgson completed his PhD in two years at Imperial College London and worked at the Science Policy Research Unit at University of Sussex for eight years. During this"
"Albert Leffingwell (novelist) Albert Leffingwell (April 24, 1895 – 1946) was an American novelist who wrote crime and mystery thrillers under the pen names ""Dana Chambers"" and ""Giles Jackson"". Albert Fear Leffingwell was born April 24, 1895, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the first son of Dr. Albert Tracy Leffingwell, and Dr. Elizabeth Fear. He graduated from Harvard, Class of 1916. In 1916, while still at Harvard, he wrote a book of poetry, ""Castles in Spain"", and had 2 poems published in the Harvard publication, ""Made to Order"". He served in WWI in France as a member of the Intelligence Department, 108th"
"Charles Dodgson (bishop) Charles Dodgson ( – 21 January 1795) was an English Anglican cleric who served in the Church of Ireland as the Bishop of Ossory (1765–1775) then Bishop of Elphin (1775–1795). Dodgson was born in Howden, Yorkshire. His date of birth is not recorded; he was baptised on 10 January 1722. His father, Christopher Dodgson (1696–1750), was the curate there. Charles Dodgson was educated at Westminster School and St. John's College, Cambridge. After ordination, he was appointed to the parish of Bintry, Norfolk in 1746. He moved to the north of England, keeping a school at Stanwix in"
"possible alternative titles were rejected – ""Alice Among the Fairies"" and ""Alice's Golden Hour"" – the work was finally published as ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" in 1865 under the Lewis Carroll pen-name, which Dodgson had first used some nine years earlier. The illustrations this time were by Sir John Tenniel; Dodgson evidently thought that a published book would need the skills of a professional artist. Annotated versions provide insights into many of the ideas and hidden meanings that are prevalent in these books. Critical literature has often proposed Freudian interpretations of the book as ""a descent into the dark world"
"aspiration, Sydney Newman, the BBC's Head of Television Drama in the 1960s, reflected of ""Adam Adamant"" that ""[they] could never quite get [the] Victorian mentality to contrast with the '60s"".) On the face of it, Carroll (a pseudonym for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) had been a rather conventional and repressed Oxford University don, but he was a keen and artistic photographer in the early days of that medium (taking, among other things, rather bohemian looking pictures of Alice Liddell and other young girls) and he developed an empathy and friendship with several of the Pre-Raphaelites; the sculptor Thomas Woolner and possibly"
"Caroline and Charles Todd ""Charles Todd"" is a pen name used by the American authors Caroline and Charles Todd. This mother-and-son writing team lives in the eastern United States, in North Carolina and Delaware respectively. The authors are best known for a series of novels, set in post World War I England. The books deal with the cases of Inspector Ian Rutledge, a veteran of the European campaigns who is attempting to pick up the pieces of his Scotland Yard career. However, he must keep his greatest burden a secret: suffering from shell shock, he lives with the constant, cynical,"
"Craig Davidson Craig Davidson (born 1976) is a Canadian author of short stories and novels, who has published work under both his own name and the pen names Patrick Lestewka and Nick Cutter. His style has been compared to that of Chuck Palahniuk. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he was raised in Calgary and St. Catharines. Davidson attended both Trent University and the University of New Brunswick. His first short story collection, ""Rust and Bone"", was later published in September 2005 by Penguin Books Canada, and was a finalist for the 2006 Danuta Gleed Literary Award. Stories in ""Rust and Bone"""
"handwriting on the wall may be a forgery."" <br>""Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?"" <br>""Did anyone ever have a boring dream?"" Ralph Hodgson Ralph Hodgson (9 September 1871 – 3 November 1962), Order of the Rising Sun (Chinese 旭日章), was an English poet, very popular in his lifetime on the strength of a small number of anthology pieces, such as ""The Bull"". He was one of the more 'pastoral' of the Georgian poets. In 1954, he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He seems to have covered"
"Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend is a 1996 book by Richard Wallace in which Wallace proposed a theory that British author Lewis Carroll, whose real name was Charles L. Dodgson (1832–1898), and his colleague Thomas Vere Bayne (1829–1908) were responsible for the Jack the Ripper murders. This theory was based primarily on a number of anagrams derived from passages in two of Carroll's works, ""The Nursery ""Alice"""", an adaptation of ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" for younger readers, and from the first volume of ""Sylvie and Bruno"". Carroll first published both works in 1889 and was"
"printed as a limited edition of 1500 copies by the Smithsonian process, at the printing house of William Edwin Rudge, inc."" Albert Leffingwell (novelist) Albert Leffingwell (April 24, 1895 – 1946) was an American novelist who wrote crime and mystery thrillers under the pen names ""Dana Chambers"" and ""Giles Jackson"". Albert Fear Leffingwell was born April 24, 1895, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the first son of Dr. Albert Tracy Leffingwell, and Dr. Elizabeth Fear. He graduated from Harvard, Class of 1916. In 1916, while still at Harvard, he wrote a book of poetry, ""Castles in Spain"", and had 2 poems published"
"similarly incriminating anagrams could be derived from Wallace's own book. When Harper's Magazine excerpted ""Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend"", Heaney and Jacobson wrote in response that its first three sentences: are an anagram of: Carroll has been voted by the staff and readers of """" as the least likely suspect (out of 22 names featured) to have actually been Jack the Ripper. Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend is a 1996 book by Richard Wallace in which Wallace proposed a theory that British author Lewis Carroll, whose real name was Charles L. Dodgson (1832–1898), and his"
"especially in the fantasy genre. ""Alice"" was published in 1865, three years after Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat, on 4 July 1862 (this popular date of the ""golden afternoon"" might be a confusion or even another Alice-tale, for that particular day was cool, cloudy and rainy), up the Isis with the three young daughters of Henry Liddell (the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and Dean of Christ Church): Lorina Charlotte Liddell (aged 13, born 1849) (""Prima"" in the book's prefatory verse); Alice Pleasance Liddell (aged 10, born 1852) (""Secunda"" in the prefatory verse); Edith"
"of the subconscious"", as well as seeing it as a satire upon contemporary mathematical advances. The overwhelming commercial success of the first Alice book changed Dodgson's life in many ways. The fame of his alter ego ""Lewis Carroll"" soon spread around the world. He was inundated with fan mail and with sometimes unwanted attention. Indeed, according to one popular story, Queen Victoria herself enjoyed ""Alice in Wonderland"" so much that she commanded that he dedicate his next book to her, and was accordingly presented with his next work, a scholarly mathematical volume entitled ""An Elementary Treatise on Determinants"". Dodgson himself"
"Edith Pargeter Edith Mary Pargeter, OBE, BEM (28 September 1913 – 14 October 1995), also known by her ""nom de plume"" Ellis Peters, was an English author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics; she is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern. She is well known for her medieval-detective series The Cadfael Chronicles. Pargeter was born in the village of Horsehay (Shropshire, England). Her father was a clerk at a local ironworks. She was educated at Dawley Church of England School and"
"Charles Eric Maine David McIlwain (21 January 1921 – 30 November 1981) better known by his pen name, Charles Eric Maine, was an English writer best known for several science fiction serials published in the 1950s and 1960s. He also wrote detective thrillers under the pen names Richard Rayner and Robert Wade. Maine was born in Liverpool, England on 21 January 1921. His writing career began with publishing three issues of a science fiction magazine called ""The Satellite"" which he co-edited along with J. F. Burke. From 1940 to 1941, he published his own magazine, called ""Gargoyle"". During World War"