Lewis Carroll: A Biography Lewis Carroll: A Biography Lewis Carroll: A Biography is a 1995 biography of author Lewis Carroll by Morton N. Cohen, first published by Knopf, later by Macmillan. It is generally considered to be the definitive scholarly work on Carroll's (real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) life. Cohen's approach is mainly chronological, with some chapters grouped by theme, such as those on Carroll's religion, his love of little girls, and his guilty feelings. Cohen, a Carroll scholar for 30 years, opts to use Dodgson's first name, Charles, throughout the work, because it "seems most appropriate in a book dealing with the intimacy
Charles Dodgson (priest) "Fanny" Lutwidge and was thereby required to give up his college position. He was appointed to a college living as Perpetual Curate of All Saints' Church, Daresbury. Ten of their eleven children, including Charles Lutwidge, were born here. The living was not a wealthy one and Dodgson ran a school in the village to supplement his income. In 1836 he was additionally appointed Examining Chaplain to Charles Longley, the newly created Bishop of Ripon. During this period he and his wife educated all their children at home. The headmaster of Warrington School, Thomas Vere Bayne, who had studied at Jesus