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 qualities, characteristics, responses, and events that describe the phenomenon we call giftedness.
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