The Rectory Umbrella and Mischmasch

by Lewis Carroll

These two early manuscript books by Lewis Carroll originated as a family effort but quickly became the young man's independent project. The Rectory Umbrella and Mischmasch are a potpourri revealing and foreshadowing the interests and talents of the most accomplished nonsense writer in English. In the two miscellanies the young Carroll's meticulous wit punctures and satirizes numerous conventions of his day: poetry, criticism, music, painting, history, and fiction are all defrocked in turn. Although the two "magazines" provide a significant introduction to Carroll's work, they are little known and, until this edition, have been almost inaccessible to devotees of humorous writing.

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First published June 1, 1932

About the author

The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer.

His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense.

Oxford scholar, Church of England Deacon, University Lecturer in Mathematics and Logic, academic author of learned theses, gifted pioneer of portrait photography, colourful writer of imaginative genius and yet a shy and pedantic man, Lewis Carroll stands pre-eminent in the pantheon of inventive literary geniuses.

He also has works published under his real name.