Through the Looking-Glass
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Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a novel published in December 1871 by Lewis Carroll, the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematics lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford.
Carroll, 1863 photograph
Alice meeting Tweedledum (centre) and Tweedledee (right)
The Red King dreaming
The White Knight accompanied by Alice
Humpty Dumpty
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Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English nursery rhyme, probably originally a riddle, and is typically portrayed as an anthropomorphic egg, though he is not explicitly described as such. The first r
Through the Looking-Glass
…Alice meets are the severe Red Queen, the gentle and flustered White Queen, the quarrelsome twins Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the rude and opinionated Humpty Dumpty, and the kindly but impractical White Knight. Eventually, as in the earlier book, after a succession of strange adventures, Alice wakes and realises…
Illustration by W. W. Denslow, 1904
Illustration from Walter Crane's Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (1877), showing Humpty Dumpty as a boy
Poster advertising the 1868 American pantomime starring George L. Fox
Humpty Dumpty and Alice, from Through the Looking-Glass. Illustration by John Tenniel