Lewis Carroll, writer of Alice in Wonderland, was viewed in two different ways. Mostly because he was known by two different names. The people who knew him as Lewis Carroll, knew him as a young acting writer who has matured. While others knew him as Charles Lutwidge, a mathematician. Although some people knew him as a mathematician named Charles, I'm going to focus on the Lewis person.
The reason he had to names was because when he was going to publish Alice in Wonderland, he didn't know how it was going to turn out or how people were going to see it. Also he didn't want it to effect the way they perceive his math work. Which was a good thing, because a lot of people think he was on something when he wrote this book, which could be the case. It is also rumored that he was a child lover (for kinder words). This however was never proven, so can't be established. There is also talk about him maybe having Epilepsy. This again was not proved. So some of these idea could have happened but this its something that will never really be known.
Nice post, John!
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