Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, son of Frances Jane Lutwidge and the Reverend Charles Dodgson, was born on January 27, 1832, at Daresbury, Cheshire. He attended Richmond Grammar School in Yorkshire, Rugby School, and Christ Church, Oxford University. His first creative works were poems and drawings, contributed to the family magazine Useful and Instructive Poetry at the age of 13. At 18 he began contributing prose, verse, and drawings to The Rectory Umbrella. At Oxford he established himself as a freelance humorist and published stories and poems in the Oxonian Advertiser and the Whitby Gazette. He took a first class in the Final Mathematical School and received his degree in 1854. ...