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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford. 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 ...
John Tenniel's illustration of Alice and the pig from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Alice is a fictional child living during the middle of the Victorian era. [2] In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), which takes place on 4 May, [nb 1] the character is widely assumed to be seven years old; [3] [4] Alice gives her age as seven and a half in the sequel, which takes place on 4 ...
The Cheshire Cat (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ ʃ ər,-ɪər / CHESH-ər, -eer) [1] is a fictional cat popularised by Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and known for its distinctive mischievous grin. While now most often used in Alice-related contexts, the association of a "Cheshire cat" with grinning predates the 1865 book. It has ...
Alice Liddell – a daughter of Henry Liddell, the Dean of Christ Church – is widely identified as the original inspiration for Alice in Wonderland, though Carroll always denied this. An avid puzzler, Carroll created the word ladder puzzle (which he then called "Doublets"), which he published in his weekly column for Vanity Fair magazine ...
The Real Alice in Wonderland, a children's book by Cathy Rubin, writing as C. M. Rubin. [31] The Real Alice in Wonderland: A Role Model for All Ages, was Written with Rubin's daughter Gabriella. Alice Liddell, was the aunt of one of Rubin's great-aunts. [32] [33] [34] Rubin was born in Georgetown, Guyana. [35]
It was included in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). The book tells of Alice's adventures within the back-to-front world of the Looking-Glass world. In an early scene in which she first encounters the chess piece characters White King and White Queen, Alice finds a book written in a ...
The Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland is reimagined as Queen Redd, the enemy and aunt of the heroine, Alyss. She kills Alyss's parents and usurps the throne of Wonderland. The true Queen of Hearts in this story is Genevieve Heart, Alyss's mother as an apparent re-imagining of the White Queen. Alyss is, therefore, the Princess of Hearts.
Alice falls into the rabbit hole, and it is a long fall, which leads her to "Wonderland". [3] In the novel, after the fall, the main character ends up in a world in which the rules of our shared reality do not apply. [4] In the 21st century, the term has come to mean a person ended up somewhere mentally rather than physically.