Alice in Wonderland in Five Acts

American poet, art connoisseur and amateur dramatist, active in Boston. A leading figure and president of the Copley Society of Boston, he was a member of the Tavern Club and helped organize a 1904 Whistler memorial exhibition. He wrote the libretto for this five-act "Alice in Wonderland" dramatization (Barta Press, 1897, with music by Lewis Sabin Thompson) and later arranged an eleven-scene version of "Alice in Wonderland" for the Copley Society (1912). He was portrayed by John Singer Sargent i...

Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), an English writer, poet, mathematician, logician and photographer, born at Daresbury, Cheshire. He lectured in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford, and wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871), along with the nonsense poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark. Under his own name he published work on mathematics and logic and devised word puzzles such as Doublets.