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Lewis Carroll

1832 - 1898

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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ( LUT-wij DOJ-sən; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician and photographer. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871). He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lewis Carroll has received more than 8,524,649 page views. His biography is available in 106 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 105 in 2019). Lewis Carroll is the 123rd most popular writer (down from 91st in 2019), the 77th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 67th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Writer.

Lewis Carroll is most famous for his novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which was published in 1865.

Memorability Metrics

  • 8.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 75.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 106

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
hookahs, Anthropomorphism, literary nonsense
One of the most popular and most quoted books in English, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was the creation of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), a distinguished scholar, mathematician and author who wrote under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll. Written for young readers but enjoyed equally by adults, the fantastic tale transformed children's literature, liberating it from didactic constraints. The story is deeply but gently satiric, enlivened with an imaginative plot and brilliant use of nonsense, as it relates Alice's adventures in a bizarre, topsy-turvey land underground. There she encounters a cast of strange characters and fanciful beasts, including the White Rabbit, March Hare, and Mad Hatter, the sleepy Dormouse and grinning Cheshire Cat,the Mock Turtle, the dreadful Queen of Hearts, and unusual creatures. ---------- Also contained in: - [Alice in Wonderland][1] - [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass][2] - [Magic in the Air][3] [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15403364W [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL9770557W [3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1387662W
1865
A tangled tale
Mathematical recreations, Accessible book
1881
Sylvie and Bruno
Cinderella, fairies, parallel worlds
"Doos oo know, that was my river-edge, Sylvie?" Bruno solemnly began. ..."What **do** you mean?" she said... Bruno drew in a long breath, and made up his mouth for a great effort, "I mean re--venge," he said: " now oo under'tand". Through being a dozy geometrickerest Lewis Carroll kept a record of his daydreams and assembled them in the order which he then published. Someone may yet reorder them... [Sylvie] drew a long breath..."It's the loveliest thing as I never saw in all my life before!"
1889
The hunting of the snark
Bibliography, History and criticism, Children's poetry, English
1876
Through the Looking-Glass
English Nonsense verses, Children's poetry, English, Nonsense verses
The sequel to 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and popularly known as Alice Through the Looking Glass is at first glance the polar opposite of the first book. Set in winter, as opposed to Summer, inside as opposed to outdoors, uses different plot devices, such as mirror and chess imagery, etc but actually carries on the same themes of polymorphic characters and nonsense plotlines.
1872
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
hookahs, Anthropomorphism, literary nonsense
A very real little girl named Alice follows a remarkable rabbit down a rabbit hole and steps through a looking-glass to come face to face with some of the strangest adventures and some of the oddest characters in all literature. The crusty Duchess, the Mad Hatter, the weeping Mock Turtle, the diabolical Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire-Cat, Tweedledum and Tweedledee--each one is more eccentric, and more entertaining, than the last. And all of them could only have come from the pen of Lewis Carroll, one of the few adults ever to enter successfully the children's world of make-believe--a wonderland where the impossible becomes possible, the unreal, real...where the heights of adventure are limited only by the depths of imagination. --back cover Contains: - [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland][1] - [Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There][2] [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13101191W/Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15298516W
1889

Page views of Lewis Carrolls by language

Over the past year Lewis Carroll has had the most page views in the with 983,794 views, followed by Spanish (180,413), and Russian (177,656). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Cornish (208.84%), Pashto (100.41%), and Haitian (93.37%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lewis Carroll ranks 123 out of 7,302. Before him are Anatole France, Jean Cocteau, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Bukowski, Ivo Andrić, and Charlotte Brontë. After him are Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Vladimir Nabokov, Paul Verlaine, François Villon, Alexandre Dumas fils, and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Lewis Carroll ranks 4. Before him are Édouard Manet, Gustave Eiffel, and Wilhelm Wundt. After him are Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Nikolaus Otto, Maximilian I of Mexico, Gustave Doré, Edward Burnett Tylor, Ivan Shishkin, José Echegaray, and William Crookes. Among people deceased in 1898, Lewis Carroll ranks 3. Before him are Otto von Bismarck, and Empress Elisabeth of Austria. After him are Stéphane Mallarmé, Gustave Moreau, Charbel Makhlouf, Eugène Boudin, Ivan Shishkin, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Johann Jakob Balmer, Charles Garnier, and Ferdinand Cohn.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lewis Carroll ranks 77 out of 8,785. Before him are Edward Heath (1916), Ridley Scott (1937), John Dee (1527), George III of the United Kingdom (1738), David Bowie (1947), and Charlotte Brontë (1816). After him are Alfred the Great (849), George VI (1895), Elton John (1947), J. M. W. Turner (1775), Edward VI of England (1537), and Diana, Princess of Wales (1961).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Lewis Carroll ranks 11. Before him are Jane Austen (1775), Arthur Conan Doyle (1859), Daniel Defoe (1660), Emily Brontë (1818), Virginia Woolf (1882), and Charlotte Brontë (1816). After him are Mary Shelley (1797), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), Walter Scott (1771), Terry Pratchett (1948), H. G. Wells (1866), and Aldous Huxley (1894).

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