Reverend Dodgson

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Reverend Dodgson - English author; Charles Dodgson was an Oxford don of mathematics who is remembered for the children's stories he wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

Carroll, Charles Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Dodgson, Lewis Carroll

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One critic has explained this seeming contradiction the following way: "The Reverend Dodgson was a reserved, fussy bachelor.

Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'

Writers of detective yarns generally find it useful to give their protagonists companions to talk to, and having decided to make a crime-solver out of the Reverend Dodgson, author Rogow may have decided 'that she could furnish him with no better sidekick than the original model for Sherlock Holmes' Dr.

Lewis in storyland

the Reverend Dodgson, brilliant in several fields, created an epic monster that makes sense in Jabberwocky's nonsense verse, even adding a number of words to the English language.