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Alice in Wonderland
Chapter I
Lewis Carroll in Wonderland : the Influence of Lewis Carroll on Alice

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known under the pen name Lewis Carroll, was a British author, mathematician, logician and photographer and he has always delighted the audience from the most naive to the most sophisticated, with his facilities at word play, logic and fantasy. Carroll suffered from a bad stammer, but he found himself vocally fluent when speaking with children. The relationships he had with young people in his adult years are of great interest, as they undoubtedly inspired his best-known writings. Carroll loved to entertain children, and it was Alice, the daughter of Henry George Liddell, who can be credited as the real Alice. While writing Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Carroll doubtlessly drew his inspiration from his direct environment, he has provided Alice with some instances of his own identity. In a biography that is dedicated to him, *Harold Bloom assumes that many aspects of Lewis Carroll's life influenced his writings. Some of these aspects include his mathematical background and logical dispositions, as well as a shown interest in little girls, eating habits, dual personality, sleeping difficulties, Victorian lifestyle and neglected childhood. These characteristics of his life are reflected in his most well-known novel "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".
1. Logic and mathematics Lewis Carroll, was born in the village of Daresbury, England, on January 27, 1832. The eldest boy in a family of 11 children. As a boy, Carroll excelled in mathematics and won many academic prizes. Apart from serving as a lecturer in mathematics, he was a brillient photographer and wrote essays, and poetry. "The Hunting of the Snark" displays his wonderful ability in the genre of literary nonsense. As Bloom ensures "As in life, Carroll was extremely logical in his literature. He wrote many mathematical treatises, but also his fiction novels were full of elements

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