Lewis Carroll
Gazette or the Oxonian Advertiser), but I do not despair of doing so
some day," he wrote in July 1855.
In 1856 he published his first piece of work under the name that would make him
famous. A romantic poem called "Solitude" appeared in The Train under the
authorship of "Lewis Carroll." This pseudonym was a play on his real name;
Lewis was the anglicised form of Ludovicus, which was the Latin for Lutwidge,
and Carroll an Irish surname similar to the Latin name Carolus, from which the
name Charles comes.
Alice
In the same year, 1856, a new Dean, Henry Liddell, arrived at Christ
Church, bringing with him his young family, all of whom would figure
largely in Dodgson's life and, over the following years, greatly influence
his writing career