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The Oxford mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a regular visitor to the Museum.

Specimens he saw there inspired some of the characters in his famous stories of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which he wrote under the more familiar name Lewis Carroll.

Dodgson's early life
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a shy, retiring lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church.

Born in 1832, he was the eldest in a family of thirteen, and grew up inventing games and stories to amuse his siblings.

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Dodgson's competence in using colour is also revealed, but we must remember that he used water-colour from the earliest sketches in the family.

CHARLES DODGSON, SEMEIOTICIAN By DANIEL FRANK KIRK A DISSERTATION PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA.

In this day and age when pedophilia is widely condemned as an abomina- ble crime, it is important the image of one of the greatest Victorian writers be cleared.

In Charles Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole.

Dodgson's imagination and respect for children continued into adulthood, and in 1856 he befriended Alice Liddell, daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, and her sisters, Edith and Lorina.

Visits to the Museum
Dodgson often visited the Museum accompanied by the young Alice Liddell and her two sisters.

The animals they saw there, their friends, and familiar places around Oxford often became incorporated into the stories Carroll created for his young friends. The dodo wa