Evelyn Hatch Evelyn Hatch Evelyn Hatch (1871 – 1951) was an English child friend of the adult Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name of Lewis Carroll. She was the subject of photographs by Dodgson and is often part of the contemporary discussion about Dodgson's relationship with young female children. She also acted as editor for a book of Dodgson's letters after his death called "A Selection From The Letters Of Lewis Carroll To His Child-Friends". Evelyn Maud Hatch was born in 1871 to Edwin and Evelyn Hatch. Edwin Hatch was a theologian; author; a vice-principal of St. Mary Hall,
Charles Dodgson (priest) at Preston Brook, and held weekly services there for the bargees. In 1843 Dodgson was given the Crown living of Croft, Yorkshire, by the Prime Minister, Robert Peel, at the urging of Longley. In 1852 he was additionally collated as a canon of Ripon Cathedral and in 1854 became the Archdeacon of Richmond. At Croft he restored the chancel of St Peter's Church and once again started a school, sacrificing part of the glebe to it. He taught there, as did his wife and later some of his children. Dodgson was a contemporary and college friend of Edward Bouverie Pusey,