Between 18, his work appeared in national publications such as The Comic Times and The Train, as well as smaller magazines like the Whitby Gazette and the Oxford Critic. SELECTED BOOKSįrom a young age, Dodgson had penned poetry and short stories, and it was shortly after graduating that he began to write more seriously.
Teaching provided Dodgson with a steady income, and over his career he would publish a number of successful mathematical textbooks, including Two Books of Euclid (1860), Elementary Treatise on Determinants (1867), Examples in Arithmetic (1874), and Curiosa Mathematica, Part I: A New Theory of Parallels (1888). Once more following in his father’s footsteps, Dodgson was appointed as a lecturer of mathematics at Oxford 1856 a position he would go on to hold until 1881. He earned a first-class degree in mathematics in 1854, as well as a second-class degree in Classics, and completed his Masters three years later.
He went into residence eight months later, in the same week that his mother died from “inflammation of the brain.”Īt Oxford, despite a tendency towards procrastination, Dodgson excelled. Despite an unhappy three years there, marked by illness and bullying, Dodgson revealed himself to be exceptionally gifted, particularly in mathematics.ĭodgson left Rugby towards the end of 1849 and matriculated at Oxford University in May of 1850 – as a member of his father’s old college, Christ Church. Two years subsequent, he moved to Rugby School in Warwickshire.
In 1843, the Dodgson family moved to North Yorkshire, and a year later the twelve-year old Lewis was sent to Richmond Grammar School.
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