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Lewis Carroll's Private Journal No. 2 1 January 1855 to 26 September 1855. Synopsis Dodgson begins the year 1855 preparing for the Senior Mathematical Scholarship at Oxford University having gained first class honours in mathematics in December 1854. During this time, he is reading extensively and widely such authors, playwrights and poets as Tom Taylor, John Horne Tooke, Richard Monckton Milnes (life of Keats), Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Cockton, James and Horatio Smith, John William Burgon, William Shakespeare, Dinah Mulock (Mrs. Craik), Alfred Tennyson (especially Maud), Arthur Helps, Isaac Watts, Edward Burton, Marmion Savage, James Anthony Froude, Isaac Williams, John Maddison Morton, James Grant, John Ruskin, Coventry Patmore, Henry White, and Elizabeth Gaskell. He hears Fanny Kemble read Henry V. He begins his career as a tutor of mathematics at Christ Church, teaching and lecturing to many undergraduates. He writes two marionette plays entitled The Tragedy of King John and Alfred the Great (both now missing). The old Dean of Christ Church dies, and Henry George Liddell (father of Alice) is appointed to replace him. Dodgson makes several visits to London attending the theatre and opera. He sees Bellini's Norma and describes the music as "delicious"; and Rossini's Barber of Seville which he notes as being "tedious". He is transfixed by Ellen Terry's portrayal of Queen Catherine in Henry VIII. He tries his hand at teaching children in Croft school. He publishes 'The Dear Gazelle' and 'Photography Extraordinary' in The Comic Times. His father writes an important letter to him with advice about his future. He makes a trip to Whitburn to visit his Wilcox cousins, and meets the young Frederica Liddell, the daughter of Henry Liddell's cousin, and strikes up an early child-friendship. Dodgson comments on the events of the Crimean War as it unfolds. Dodgson has his first taste of photography watching his Uncle Skeffington take pictures of scenery around Croft (this later becomes his main hobby). Corrections to the LCS Edition of this Journal
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