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Despite his poor study habits, his talent in mathematics enabled him to graduate with first-class honors and remain at Christ Church as a lecturer, a position he held for twenty-six years. His original intention had been to enter holy orders, which was a condition of his residency at Christ Church. He became a deacon in 1861 but declined to pursue the priesthood. The dean allowed him to remain at the college, despite the refusal being grounds for dismissal from his position. Carroll recorded in his diaries that he felt he was a sinner who was unworthy of the priesthood.
As a youth, Carroll wrote plays, poetry, and short stories for the amusement of his family. He began to publish them in 1854 and adopted the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, a play on the Latin form of his first and middle names, in 1856. That same year Carroll struck up a friendship with the wife of the dean of Christ Church, Lorina Liddell, and her children, including a daughter named Alice. Carroll took the children on rowing trips, during which he told them stories to entertain them. He called the female protagonist of one story Alice, and the namesake child asked him to write the story down for
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Originally Alice’s Adventures Under Ground
