Hatter (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
The Hatter is a fictional character in Lewis Carroll's 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass. He is very often referred to as the Mad Hatter, though this term was never used by Carroll. The phrase "mad as a hatter" pre-dates Carroll's works. The Hatter and the March Hare are referred to as "both mad" by the Cheshire Cat, in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in the sixth chapter titled "Pig and Pepper".
Illustration of the March Hare, one of the Hatter's tea party friends, by Sir John Tenniel.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at Oxford University. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. The artist John Tenniel provided 42 wood-engraved illustrations for the book.
First edition cover (1865)
Page from the manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground, 1864
Three cards painting the white rose tree red to cover it up from the Queen of Hearts (Coloured Tenniel illustration)
Opening pages of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Macmillan Publishers, London