The sampling of links below will provide you with a starting point for research about Lewis Carroll, his works, his life, and his time. These links should provide you with ample information to begin a study project, whether it be a school essay or a doctoral thesis. You will find Carroll a fascinating topic, regardless of the aspect you choose to explore. There is a great deal of rubbish on the internet, as you likely know, including the occasional ill-considered and unsupported statements of “facts” about Lewis Carroll. For example, despite what you may read on some lazy sites, Carroll was not a user of recreational drugs; his creativity did not require artificial stimulus. As always, when researching any topic, we encourage you to seek out reputable, responsible resources for your research, and double-check your facts.
Please note: All links provided on this site are for reference only, and do not necessarily represent an endorsement of a given site or its contents. If you know of additional links appropriate for this or any of our other pages, please send the link to us! We are always looking for new, good-quality links relating to Lewis Carroll.
Selected Bibliography
- Annotated and Critical Editions, Letters and Diaries
- Biography
- Bibliography
- Photography
- Mathematics, Logic & Games
- Essays & Criticism
Biographies
- Biography of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson at Your Archives.com
(links to British National Archives Dodgson sources; definitive data) - Lewis Carroll: A Biography, by LCSNA member Morton Cohen
- The Mystery of Lewis Carroll, by LCSNA member Jenny Woolf
- A Biography by Derek Hudson, online
- Brief Biography from Incompetech.com
- Brief Biography by Keith Parkins (note: some links do not work)
- A Timeline
- Carroll’s Maternal Genealogy
- Bio and Critique from enotes.com
- “Carroll’s Financial Records” by Jenny Woolf
- “A Girl Like Alice” by Vanessa St. Clair (Alice’s great-granddaughter’s musings about being a descendant of Alice)
Critical Analysis and Interpretation
- Chapter by Chapter Commentary by Marc Edmund Jones
- A Talk Given by J.R. Lucas
- Alice in Pragmaticland
- Issues With Translating Into Dutch, by Marye de Jong
- Translating Childrens’ Books Into German
- Choice of the name Alice or Arisu in Japanese translations
- Bosch, Alice and Mad Magazine
- Lewis Carroll: Author, Mathematician and Christian
- Dodgson’s Dodges, by Thomas Christensen
- To Catch a Bandersnatch, LCSNA member Mark Burstein
Lessons
Helpful Tools
Tidbits
- An Article About Jabberwhorl Cronstadt
- See Another Photo of the Source of the Cheshire Cat
Other Carroll Resources
- Lewis Carroll Resources
- LCSNA member Edward Wakeling’s Lewis Carroll Site
- Wikipedia Carroll Page
- Lewis Carroll’s Scrapbook (A remarkable Library of Congress virtual facsimile of one of his actual scrapbooks, with an introductory essay by LCSNA member Edward Wakeling)
- A General Page by LCSNA member Lenny de Rooy
- David Wheldon’s Page
- The Looking Glass: New Perspectives in Children’s Literature
