Though many believe that Alice Liddell is the titular Alice and was Dodgson's muse, Dodgson denied this later in life. As the sub-librarian there, he met four-year-old Alice Liddell and her family. He received a degree in mathematics from Christ Church at Oxford, where he'd remain employed in various capacities for much of his life. He did experience a stutter that followed him throughout his life. Young Dodgson was bright and precocious he supposedly read Pilgrim's Progress at age seven. His father was a very conservative cleric for the Church of England who, though mathematically gifted and on the path to success, married his first cousin and became a country parson instead. Charles Dodgson was the third child in his family.
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