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Lewis Carroll

1832 - 1898

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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and reluctant Anglican deacon. 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. His poems Jabberwocky (1871) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lewis Carroll is the 140th most popular writer (down from 123rd in 2019), the 119th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 77th in 2019) and the 12th most popular British Writer.

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

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Among writers, Lewis Carroll ranks 140 out of 7,302. Before him are Haruki Murakami, Jean Cocteau, August Strindberg, Charles Bukowski, Jonathan Swift, and Paul Verlaine. After him are Boris Pasternak, Dr. Seuss, Yukio Mishima, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Cato the Elder.

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Among people born in 1832, Lewis Carroll ranks 7. Before him are Édouard Manet, Gustave Eiffel, Maximilian I of Mexico, Louisa May Alcott, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, and Wilhelm Wundt. After him are Nikolaus Otto, Gustave Doré, José Echegaray, Edward Burnett Tylor, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, and William Crookes. Among people deceased in 1898, Lewis Carroll ranks 4. Before him are Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Otto von Bismarck, and William Ewart Gladstone. After him are Stéphane Mallarmé, Gustave Moreau, Charbel Makhlouf, Johann Jakob Balmer, Syed Ahmad Khan, Ivan Shishkin, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, and Eugène Boudin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lewis Carroll ranks 119 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Robert Malthus (1766), John Stuart Mill (1806), Herbert Spencer (1820), David Bowie (1947), Edgar Adrian (1889), and Nevill Francis Mott (1905). After him are Lemmy (1945), Jeff Beck (1944), Maud of Wales (1869), Roger Taylor (1949), Edward III of England (1312), and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Lewis Carroll ranks 12. Before him are Arthur Conan Doyle (1859), Lord Byron (1788), D. H. Lawrence (1885), Daniel Defoe (1660), Virginia Woolf (1882), and Jane Austen (1775). After him are Emily Brontë (1818), Mary Shelley (1797), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), Walter Scott (1771), and Anna Wintour (1949).

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