Happy Birthday Lewis Carroll

LEWIS CARROLL, actually Charles Dodgson, was born today in 1832. He described “The different branches of Arithmetic—Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.” Watch the first ever film of Alice in Wonderland. Made in 1903, it was directed by Percy Stow and Cecil Hepworth. It’s about 9 minutes long. Carroll also said, “One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.” Hear him read “Jabberwocky” here Not dead Dead since January 14, 1898.