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1832 |
Born (January 27) at the Parsonage, Daresbury, Cheshire, eldest son and third child of Charles Dodgson, perpetual curate of Daresbury, and Frances Jane née Lutwidge. | |
1844-45 |
At Richmond School, Yorkshire. | |
1846-49 |
At Rugby School. | |
1850 |
Matriculated (May 23) at Christ Church, Oxford, but unable to take up residence as insufficient room for undergraduates at that time. | |
1851 |
Undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford (January 24); Frances Jane [Lutwidge] Dodgson, his mother, dies (January 26). | |
1852-98 |
Student of Christ Church (equivalent to a fellowship carrying a small stipend). | |
1854 |
B.A., Christ Church, Oxford First Class Honors in Mathematics, Second Class in Classics. | |
1855 |
Sub-Librarian of Christ Church Library (February); Bostock Scholarship (May); appointed Master of the House (June); appointed Mathematical Lecturer (August; takes up post in January 1856). | |
1856 |
Takes up photography, his main hobby for twenty-five years (May 1). | |
1857 |
M.A., Christ Church, Oxford (February 5). | |
1861 |
Ordained deacon, Church of England in Christ Church Cathedral (December 22). | |
1862 |
Story of Alice’s adventures told to Alice Liddell and her sisters on a boat-trip to Godstow (July 4); manuscript of Alice’s Adventures Under-Ground begun soon after. | |
1865 |
Publishes Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (July) but immediately withdrawn and reissued with improved illustrations (November). | |
1866 |
Sheets of the suppressed edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) bound in Oxford and shipped to New York for sale by D. Appleton and Company, with a new title page dated 1866 (before August). | |
1867 |
Journeys through Europe to Russia with Henry P. Liddon (July to September). | |
1868 |
Father dies (June 21); siblings move to “The Chestnuts,” Guildford (September). | |
1869 |
Publishes Phantasmagoria, collection of humorous and serious poetry. | |
1871 |
Publishes Through the Looking-Glass (December). Publishes The Hunting of the Snark (April). |
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1877 |
Takes summer lodgings at Eastbourne for first time (July); occupies rooms with the same landlady annually until 1897. | |
1880 |
Gives up photography (last photograph taken on July 15). | |
1881 |
Takes early retirement from mathematical lectureship. | |
1882 |
Curator of Common Room at Christ Church (December). | |
1885 |
Publishes A Tangled Tale. | |
1886 |
Publishes facsimile of Alice’s Adventures Under-Ground. | |
1887 |
Publishes The Game of Logic. | |
1889 |
Publishes Sylvie and Bruno. | |
1890 |
Publishes The Nursery “Alice.” | |
1892 |
Resigns as Curator of Common Room. |
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1893 |
Publishes Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. |
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1896 |
Publishes Symbolic Logic: Part 1. | |
1898 |
Dies at Guildford (January 14) and is buried there. Three Sunsets and Other Poems published posthumously (January). | |