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In 1856 he met the Dean of Christchurch, Henry Liddell and his young family, Lorina, Alice and Edith Liddell.

The new art of photography fascinated him he produced 3,000 images during his lifetime, many of female children. He also began to publish poems and short stories. He was a brilliant scholar and in 1854 gained first class honours in mathematics, winning a lectureship only a year later. Two days after he began there his mother died of ‘inflammation of the brain’. In 1851 he joined Christchurch College, Oxford, to study Mathematics. His clergyman father sent him to Rugby school, where he was unhappy. He developed a stammer which troubled him throughout his life a self portrait he drew as an adult revealingly shows his face with his hand tightly covering his mouth. In childhood, he produced magazines for his sisters which display his love of parody, word games, puzzles and nonsense. Lewis Carroll was the literary pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, born in 1832, the third in a family of eleven children he had seven younger sisters.