Lewis Carroll
Between 1854 and 1856, his work appeared in the national
publications, The Comic Times and The Train, as well as smaller
magazines like the Whitby Gazette and the Oxford Critic. Most of this
output was humorous, sometimes satirical, but his standards and
ambitions were exacting. "I do not think I have yet written anything
worthy of real publication (in which I do not include the Whitby
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,