Carroll, Lewis

1. Pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a nineteenth-century writer, scholar, and photographer best known as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandand Through the Looking-Glass.

Example Sentences

The sets—which, really, were a feat of design and direction—appeared to be remnants of a Lewis Carroll fever dream.

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Lewis Carroll, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, and Vincent van Gogh all likely experienced the condition.

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In Oxford, Lear will relate stories from the lives of figures like W.H. Auden, Lewis Carroll, and T.E. Lawrence.

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Her attention to language—and the breakdown of language—invites comparisons to writers like Anthony Burgess and Lewis Carroll.

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Lewis Carroll really did introduce the word “chortle” to the English language in his 1871 poem Jabberwocky.

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"Father William" a parody by Lewis Carroll (1833-), is even more clever than the original.

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Lewis Carroll, for instance, to take a famous recent example, was the reverse of a sociable man.

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I do not, and never shall, believe it is true, and Lewis Carroll is only one of many instances to support my theory.

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The personal characteristic that you would notice most on meeting Lewis Carroll was his extreme shyness.

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I have written “a thousand pieces,” and a thoughtless exaggeration of that sort was a thing that Lewis Carroll hated.

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