Overview
The lists below give all the main works, but omit many of the pieces printed in journals and a lot of the short papers. Full descriptions and a reclassification is planned, for this section. In the meantime, these lists might give you some ideas about what else Dodgson wrote.
Childhood Compositions and Magazines
1845 | Useful and Instructive Poetry (manuscript - published 1954) |
c1848 | The Rectory Magazine (manuscript) |
c1850 | La Guida Di Bragia (manuscript) |
c1850-53 | The Rectory Umbrella (manuscript - published 1932) |
1855-62 | Mischmasch (manuscript with press cuttings - published 1932) |
Major Works - Books
1865 | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (illustrated: John Tenniel) Printed in July, some copies were issued but most were recalled. Sheets from recalled edition were published by Appleton, New York in 1866. (See Publishing of Alice) |
1866 | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland First published edition, (issued Dec 1865) (See Publishing of Alice) |
1869 | Phantasmagoria A collection of poems |
1872 | Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there (Illustrated by John Tenniel; issued Dec 1871) (See Publishing of Alice) |
1876 | The Hunting of the Snark (illustrated by Henry Holiday) A long nonsense poem written in a mock-heroic style. |
1879 | Euclid and his Modern Rivals - a play written in defence of Euclid's approach to the teaching of geometry |
1879 | Doublets - a word game |
1883 | Rhyme? And Reason? (A poetry collection - includes The Hunting of the Snark as illustrated by Henry Holiday as well as Phantasmagoria and other poems, newly illustrated by Arthur Frost) |
1885 | A Tangled Tale (illustrated by Arthur Frost) A series of short stories, each containing one or more puzzles. |
1886 | The Game of Logic. An elementary text on logic - presented in an entertaining way using Carroll's "game" to solve problems. |
1886 | Alice’s Adventures under Ground. The facsimile of the original manuscript of the story as presented to Alice Liddell. (See Publishing of Alice) |
1889 | The Nursery “Alice”. An adaption of the Alice for younger children. (See Publishing of Alice) |
1889 | Sylvie and Bruno (illustrated by Harry Furniss) A complicated story collecting together a diverse range of material - poems, short stories, etc. |
1893 | Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. The second and concluding part of the Sylvie and Bruno story. |
1896 | Symbolic Logic Part I Elementary. The first part of Carroll's major textbook on logic. Presented as a serious testbook for schools, but made entertaining by the use of interesting examples of puzzles to be solved and the use of Carroll "game" to solve them. |
Miscellaneous Pieces
1869 | The Guildford Gazette Extraordinary |
1876 | An Easter Greeting to Every Child who loves Alice |
1877 | Memoria Technica |
1884 | Christmas Greetings from a Fairy to a Child |
1888 | Curiosa Mathematica Part I - New Theory of Parallels |
1890 | Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter Writing |
1893 | Curiosa Mathematica Part II - Pillow Problems |
Posthumous Publications
1898 | Three Sunsets (illus. E Gertrude Thomson) |
1899 | Isa’s Visit to Oxford (1888). A humorous diary written out by Carroll for Isa Bowman recording events which took place during a visit which Isa made to stay with Carroll in Oxford. |
Maggie’s Visit to Oxford (1889). Similar to Isa's Visit, although this account of Maggie's visit is entirely in verse. | |
1907 | Feeding the Mind (a printing of a lecture delivered 1884) |
1932 | Rectory Umbrella and Mischmasch |
1954 | Useful and Instructive Poetry |
The Diaries of Lewis Carroll (An abridged version of Carroll's diary) | |
1977 | Symbolic Logic. Edited by W.W. Bartley. A collection of material originally developed for Carroll's three-part text book on logic. The editor attempts to recreate the second part and some of the third part of the series using material in proof or manuscript form. |
The Wasp in a Wig. This episode from Through the Looking-Glass was edited out at a late stage of preparation for publication - partly at the request of John Tenniel, the illustrator. Proof pages of the episode were found in the 1970s and first published in 1977. | |
1979 | The Letters of Lewis Carroll. Edited by Morton N Cohen |
1993- 2005 | The Diaries of Lewis Carroll. The unabridged text of the nine surviving (of the original 13) volumes, published with annotations and index, edited by Edward Wakeling. |