We all know him as the writer of the all-time classic children’s book “Alice in Wonderland” but Lewis Carroll was so much more than that. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson or as he is popularly known as Lewis Carroll was a prominent figure in the Renaissance in the Victorian age. Although he is known and remembered for his immortal work, “Alice in Wonderland”he was a poet, philosopher, mathematician, satirist, photographer, and inventor. So, if you know him from Alice in Wonderland then let us explore many other intriguing facts about Lewis Carroll. He struggled with a stutter for the whole of his life Lewis Carroll had a quite hard childhood. He termed his stutter as “hesitation” at a young age but it remained with him all of his adult life. Interestingly, stutter became a part of his personal stories and myths which included stories like he stuttered just in front of adults but is fine with kids. He also developed deafness in one ear due to a childhood fever and a weakened chest due to a bout of whooping cough when he was 18. He wrote about eleven books in Mathematics The contribution of his work in puzzles, geometry, and algebra is exemplary. He is known as a master logician who wrote many books such as An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, With Their Application to Simultaneous Linear Equation, and Algebraic Equation. He also was the first one to have printed proof of the Kronecker-Capelli theorem and a conceptual system for better government representation. His inspiration for Alice in the Wonderland was spelled out clearly in the last chapter of “Through the Looking Glass” Carroll, for all of his life, denied that Alice was based on any real-life inspiration. The poem at the ending “Through the Looking Glass” named “A boat beneath a sunny sky” spells out an acrostic Alice Pleasance Liddell. Conspiracy theorists suspected that Carroll was infamous “Jack, The Ripper” Conspiracy theorists suspected that Carroll was Jack, The Ripper due for several reasons. Firstly, both Carroll and Jack, The Ripper were contemporaries. One author named Richard Wallace theorized that due to his unhappy childhood and strict religious upbringing, he had all the elements of being a serial killer. They even went as far as looking for clues and codes in his writing and believed them to be his confessions. But critics think it is a bit far-fetched to speculate such a thing. Jack, The Ripper or not but Carroll inspired many literature lovers for years to come.
