Dodgson never worked hard at his studies but finished at the top of his class anyway. He eventually developed debilitating, aura-hallucinating migraines and was diagnosed with epilepsy.Īcademics were a similar story. He was left deaf in one ear after a childhood fever, and whooping cough at 17 is said to have weakened his chest for the rest of his life. The claim was made, although there was no confirming evidence, that he only stuttered around adults, never children. Having developed a stutter at a young age, he was not deterred, ultimately making it part of his personal story as an adult. Health was never a strong point for the young Dodgson. Not only was he the author of some of the best examples of nonsense literature ( Alice and Through the Looking Glass) he was also an accomplished mathematician, poet, satirist, philosopher, inventor, and photographer. Perhaps best known as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the man born as Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and known as Lewis Carroll was truly a Renaissance man of the Victorian era.
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