On January 27, 1832, in a small village of the United Kingdom called Daresbury, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born to Charles Dodgson and Frances Jane (“Lewis Carroll is actually a pen name”). Seasons were temperate in the small town of Daresbury, in which Charles was raised. While growing up, he was raised strictly as a conservative Anglican by his father who served as the Reverend of the small town (“Religion”). Alongside his father, mother, and his ten brothers and sisters he lived a happy childhood; and as the third oldest child, but the oldest brother he would entertain his siblings with nick-knacks he had created (“Charles L(utwidge) Dodgson”). For example, he would build “homemade marionettes, whose strings he moved himself.” He would even write poems and stories for them and create games for them (“Lewis Carroll ,The English Cleric”).
Additionally, at home “he had learned [and loved learning] mathematics, Latin, and literature with ease, [showing] early promise [in] mathematics” (“Lewis Carroll is actually a pen name”). However, what proved troublesome for the family as a whole, including Charles, was that they all suffered from a speech impediment, known as stuttering. What Charles lacked in social skills, due to his speech impediment, he made up with his skill and love of academic subjects. He enjoyed catching up on logic, philosophy,…show more content… With his creation of the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, Charles insisted on being two separate people. He disliked the idea of being called Lewis Carroll within his church community. Similarly, he disliked being called Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson outside his church community and especially among children, who knew him primarily as Lewis Carroll for his children’s books (“Lewis Carroll Collections”). As said in Lewis Carroll Collections: “In one letter to a child friend he gives an amusing account of the meeting of his two
