Charles Dodgson came from a long line of Churchh of England ministers. His father was a gifted mathematician who gave up intellectual career to become a country parson and eventually became an archdeacon. His great-grandfather had been a bishop. Although he achieved fame and wealth from his Alice books, he hated to be called Lewis Carroll and would respond to fan mail with a circular repudiating any relationship to that persona.
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Charles Dodgson came from a long line of Church of England ministers. His father was a gifted mathematician who gave up an intellectual career to become a country parson and eventually became an archdeacon. His great-grandfather had been a bishop. Although he achieved fame and wealth from his Alice books, he hated to be called Lewis Carroll and would respond to fan mail with a circular repudiating any relationship to that persona.