Dodgson was also an avid photographer and often photographed young girls, something that, while normal by Victorian standards, has fueled questions about his sexual preferences in the years since his death in 1898. He never married, but his surviving diaries and letters suggest that he had several romantic relationships, including, possibly, with Alice Liddell's older sister and her governess. The three Alice books became Dodgson's most famous works, even though he also published a number of books on mathematics and politics. 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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