Lewis Carroll was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson in 1832 and he spent his childhood years in Cheshire, entertaining 10 siblings while his father took care of their education. At the age of twelve Lewis Carroll was sent to school. He went to Christchurch College, Oxford and contributed poems, rhymes and drawings to various magazines. For the rest of his life Lewis Carroll stayed on at the College as a tutor of mathematics. By 1855 Lewis Carroll was a regular contributor to The Comic Times, whose editor gave Charles Dodgson, mathematician, the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, under which all his literary works were submitted. In 1872, seven years after Alice in Wonderland, he published Through the looking glass and what Alice found there, the sequel to Alice in Wonderland. Together the novels are known as Alice's adventures in Wonderland. He died after a bout of influenza in 1898.