| As a mathematician, Dodgson was rather conservative but certainly thorough and careful. |
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| As early as 1894 Dodgson used truth tables for the solution of specific logic problems. |
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| A second impression was issued nine months after the first and Dodgson began to plan a sequel. |
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| Despite early unhappiness, Dodgson was to remain at Christ Church, in various capacities, until his death. |
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| In broad terms, Dodgson has traditionally been regarded as politically, religiously, and personally conservative. |
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| Dodgson became close friends with Liddell's wife Lorina and their children, particularly the three sisters Lorina, Edith, and Alice Liddell. |
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| Dodgson wrote and received as many as 98,721 letters, according to a special letter register which he devised. |
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| Several other writers and scholars have challenged the evidential basis for Cohen's and others' views about this interest of Dodgson. |
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| Karoline Leach's reappraisal of Dodgson focused in particular on his controversial sexuality. |
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| But when the time came a year later to be ordained as a priest, Dodgson appealed to the dean for permission not to proceed. |
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| For unknown reasons, Liddell changed his mind overnight and permitted Dodgson to remain at the college in defiance of the rules. |
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| There is currently no conclusive evidence about why Dodgson rejected the priesthood. |
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| Wilson quotes letters by Dodgson describing difficulty in reading lessons and prayers rather than preaching in his own words. |
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| This was a period when Dodgson began suffering great mental and spiritual anguish and confessing to an overwhelming sense of his own sin. |
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| During the trip, Dodgson told the girls a story that featured a bored little girl named Alice who goes looking for an adventure. |
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| The girls loved it, and Alice Liddell asked Dodgson to write it down for her. |
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| She explains the mathematical history involved, including the influence of Boolean logic on Dodgson. |
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| Dodgson wrote some studies of various philosophical arguments. |
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| Some authors have suggested that Dodgson may have suffered from this type of aura and used it as an inspiration in his work, but there is no evidence that he did. |
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| In 1856, Dodgson took up the new art form of photography under the influence first of his uncle Skeffington Lutwidge, and later of his Oxford friend Reginald Southey. |
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| Robbins' and Rumsey's investigation of Dodgson condensation, a method of evaluating determinants, led them to the Alternating Sign Matrix conjecture, now a theorem. |
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| Dodgson also suffered two attacks in which he lost consciousness. |
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| The stammer has always been a significant part of the image of Dodgson. |
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| Rick Dodgson had filled the gap by offering the first academic biography of the best-selling author and inspirational figure amongst psychedelic enthusiasts. |
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| The girls and Dodgson took another boat trip a month later when he elaborated the plot to the story of Alice, and in November he began working on the manuscript in earnest. |
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| Some, including Martin Gardner, speculate that there was an earlier version that was destroyed later by Dodgson when he wrote a more elaborate copy by hand. |
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| Dodgson never became a priest, unique amongst senior students of his time. |
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| It was on one such expedition on 4 July 1862 that Dodgson invented the outline of the story that eventually became his first and greatest commercial success. |
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| In his day-to-day life, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a classic Victorian fussbudget who, whatever the season, always wore gloves and a top hat outdoors. |
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| But Dodgson did indeed preach in later life, even though not in priest's orders, so it seems unlikely that his impediment was a major factor affecting his choice. |
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