Many people described Charles Lutwidge Dodgson as shy. He wasn’t very good in social
situations One of his college students even said Dodgson’s math classes were extremely boring. Children, however, thought very differently of him. When he was with children, he was funny and imaginative. He invented puzzles and games, and created stories that children loved. Those children included Alice Pleasance Liddell, the daughter of a colleague, and her two sisters, Lorina and Edith. Dodgson was, it seems, a wildflower that only bloomed when children were around.