The Hunting of the Snark
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The Hunting of the Snark, subtitled An Agony, in Eight Fits, is a poem by the English writer Lewis Carroll. It is typically categorised as a nonsense poem. Written between 1874 and 1876, it borrows th
Cover of first edition
Henry Holiday's illustration of the hunt. Note accompanying Hope (midground, with anchor) and Care (background, shrouded).
The Bellman supporting the Banker by a finger entwined in his hair
The crew on deck
Tichborne case
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The Tichborne case was a legal cause célèbre that fascinated Victorian Britain in the 1860s and 1870s. It concerned the claims by a man sometimes referred to as Thomas Castro or as Arthur Orton, but u
The Hunting of the Snark
…Who Loves "Alice". Various meanings in the poem have been proposed, among them existential angst, an allegory for tuberculosis, and a mockery of the Tichborne case. While Carroll denied knowing the meaning behind the poem, he agreed in an 1897 reply to a reader's letter with an interpretation of the poem as an…
The blended image (centre) was said by the Claimant's supporters to prove that Roger Tichborne (left, in 1853) and the Claimant (right, in 1874) were one and the same person.
Roger Tichborne: one of two daguerreotypes taken in South America in 1853–54
August 1865 advertisement in The Argus seeking information as to Tichborne's fate
Thomas Castro's butcher's shop in Wagga Wagga, Australia