The Rectory magazine
by Lewis Carroll 
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"The Rectory Magazine was the second of eight children's magazines Carroll edited in his adolescence. It was composed apparently during the last six months of 1845, but the title page reveals that it saw five 'editions' and a number of revisions until it was bound in its present form in 1850, when Carroll was eighteen. Thus, it gives us an indication of his creativity during his most important formative years. The drawings and most of the stories and poems are his own, and they reveal the show more sense of humor and love of words and childhood dreams that soon made him famous."--from "Lewis Carroll and The Rectory Magazine" essay, by Jerome Bump. show lessTags
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This is a "magazine" put together by Lewis Carroll, his siblings, and perhaps a few other contributors while Carroll was a child. Some of the material is frankly childish but it shows promise. It is reminiscent of C.. Lewis's Boxen, not as serious as the Brontes' Angria.
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Charles Luthwidge Dodgson was born in Daresbury, England on January 27, 1832. He became a minister of the Church of England and a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church College, Oxford. He was the author, under his own name, of An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, Symbolic Logic, and other scholarly treatises. He is better known by his pen show more name of Lewis Carroll. Using this name, he wrote Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. He was also a pioneering photographer, and he took many pictures of young children, especially girls, with whom he seemed to empathize. He died on January 14, 1898. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books, Poetry
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- 820.8 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures Collections of literary texts in more than one form
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- PR1143 .R4 — Language and Literature English English Literature Collections of English literature
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