Many articles about Lewis Carroll have been published throughout history, yet very few of them ever mention the famed author’s stuttering.


Recently, a May 30, 2020, article in MyModernMet.com entitled “5 Curiouser and Curiouser Facts About Fanciful Writer Lewis Carroll” cited his stuttering by stating that the character of Dodo in his famous work Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland came from his own inability to pronounce his real name of Charles Dodgson and frequently being forced to pronounce his surname “do-do-Dodgson.”


`"I you to answer now," t's time for


the Queen said, looking at her watch


Lewis Carroll, the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was born in 1827 to Charles Dodgson and the former Frances Jane Lutwidge. In addition to being a writer, Carroll was a mathematician, a logician, an Anglican deacon and a photographer.


His most notable literary works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, Jabberwocky, and The Hunting of the Snark.


In Lewis Carroll: A Biography, author Morton N. Cohen stated, "The newborn son was the third of what eventually became a family of eleven children, and if these bloodlines deserve credit for the creative genius we know to be Lewis Carroll's, so perhaps they bear the blame for the stammer epidemic in Charles' speech and in the speech of much of his brothers and sisters."


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