Henry Savile Clarke was an English dramatist, journalist and critic. He produced and wrote the lyrics and book for the first professional dramatisation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (1886) which remained a popular children's Christmas entertainment for half a century.
Henry Savile Clarke in 1889
Score for Alice in Wonderland (1906)
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