Why did Lewis Carroll go by his pen name?

Answer 1

Because he thought people reading his books on mathematics would find it odd that the same author name would appear on the cover of a children's fiction literature book. So he decided to kind of change or re-translate his name into a pen name to make the difference in the style of the books obvious and noticeable.

Answer 2

It seems that Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was very keen to keep his fictional work separate from his real and professional life. He never publicly acknowledged that he was also Lewis Carroll and even went to the lengths of printing a message to send to people who wrote to him as Lewis Carroll saying, "He neither claims or acknowledges any connection with any pseudonym, or with any book that is not published under his own name."

source: Rackin, D., Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Nonsense, Sense and Meaning

His pen-name was chosen by Edmund Yates, the editor of a magazine to which Dodgson had submitted a poem:

Dodgson first used 'B.B.' to sign his non-professional writings, but in March 1856, when he wanted to publish his poem 'Solitude' in the magazine "The Train", Edmund Yates, a magazine editor, thought that this one was not appropriate. Then Dodgson came up with 'Dares' (from Daresbury in Cheshire, his birthplace), but that one was also rejected. Finally he invented Edgar Cuthwellis (composed from the letters of his name), Edgar U.C. Westhill (idem), Louis Carroll...and Lewis Carroll (idem). Yates chose the last one.

source: Lenny's Alice in wonderland Site (see Related Link)

The name Lewis Carroll was created by Dodgson Latinising his first two names, and then Anglicising them again.

Lutwidge = Ludovic = Lewis

Charles = Carolus = Carroll

We know that there is no connection between Dodgson's pen-name and Alice Liddell because 'Solitude' was published under the name Lewis Carroll in March 1856, and he did not meet Alice Liddell until April of the same year.

Answer 3

According to Wikipedia, the pseudonym Lewis Carrol, was a play on Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's real name. Ludovicus was the Latin for Lutwidge, & Lewis was the anglicised version of Ludovicus. The name Charles comes from the Latin name Carolus. Carroll is an Irish surname similar to the Latin Carolus.

Answer 4

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) chose to use a pen name for his writing to keep his identity separate from his work as a mathematician at Oxford University. Using a pseudonym also allowed him to maintain a degree of privacy and freedom in his creative pursuits.

Answer 5

because it was good

Answer 6

The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a mathematician and cryptologist as well as a lecturer at Christ Church College, Oxford. To reveal his name on a book such as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland evidently did not appeal to him so he simply went to the root of his two forenames. The name 'Charles' comes from the Latin 'Carolus', hence 'Carroll', and 'Lutwidge' (his mother's maiden name) derives from the Germanic 'Ludwig', the English version of which is 'Lewis'. No doubt he thought, "Shall I be Carroll Lewis - no I shall be Lewis Carroll". But a priest he was not.