In 1843, the elder Charles was made rector of Croft, north Yorkshire, a relatively lucrative position that meant moving the family into the local rectory, where they lived for the next twenty-five years. He was also deaf in his right ear, which combined with his speech impediment may have stopped him from continuing the family tradition of taking orders in the Church of England. From all accounts, the childhood was a happy one, though young Dodgson suffered from a stammer, a condition that was shared by several of his siblings. Young Charles was the third child (and eldest son) in a family that would eventually include eleven children. His father was a gifted mathematician (also named Charles) who had turned his back on a promising academic career in order to live his life in obscurity as a country parson.
The writer who rose to prominence as Lewis Carroll was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson on January 27, 1832, at Daresdury in Cheshire,Įngland. For readers for whom the age of seven is a distant memory, the novel provides the chance to think about what has passed and, as the closing poem promises, to spend time "Dreaming as the days go by." AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY With its elaborate depictions of a world in which lives are manipulated like chess pieces and in which inverse relations become the norm, Through the Looking-Glass offers readers a chance to engage an imaginative dream world. The second novel immediately found a more appreciative audience than its predecessor and has come to be considered a groundbreaking blend of playful (though sophisticated) logic, social satire, and exuberant fantasy that captures the imagination of children and adult readers alike.
Through the Looking-Glass was published at Christmas in 1871 in an edition of nine thousand copies, with illustrations (as with the first book) by Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914). In 1869, Lewis Carroll (the pseudonym for Charles Dodgson) began to write the sequel novel to his Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which had been published four years earlier to mixed reviews.
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