Introduction to Alice’s Aduentures in

This paper analyzes the early life of the eminent children’s writer and mathematical scholar, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll). The author concludes that by examining the early years of eminent individuals, we are better able to analyze nurturing environments and document those quali-ties, characteristics, responses, and events that describe the phenomenon we call giftedness. &dquo;All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to guide. &dquo