Facts
- Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.
- The author is best known for Alice in Wonderland.
- Carroll had his productivity worked out to a science: he could write 20 words a minute, a page of 150 words in seven and a half minutes, and twelve pages in two and a half hours.
- He was a big letter writer, sometimes corresponding upwards of 2,000 times in one year, and he would sometimes write backwards, forcing the reader to hold the letter to a mirror in order to decipher it.
- The Cheshire cat is a character in Alice in Wonderland, a mischievous grinning cat with the ability to disappear into thin air! The character was inspired by cheese moulds from the county of Cheshire in England, a dairy-rich area where “grinning like a Cheshire cat” was a popular phrase – possibly because cats were happy to live in a land of abundant dairy farms! Cheesemakers in the area moulded their cheese with the design of a cat’s grinning face on the front, and sliced from the back, so that the cat would slowly disappear as the cheese was eaten.
Quotes
- “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.”“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.”
“I can’t go back to yesterday – because I was a different person then.”
“Have I gone mad? I’m afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usually are.”
“Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.”
Declassified 08/06/2018
