Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, written by Lewis Carroll, the pen name of the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson, and illustrated by John Tenniel. Alice steps through a mirror into a world arranged like a chessboard, where she aims to move from pawn to queen. She meets figures such as Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, the Red Queen and the White Knight. The book contains the nonsense poem Jabberwocky, which introduced words such as chortle and galumph. It is full of wordplay and logical puzzles and has been popular with both children and adults ever since.
Before and after
- 30 September 1870Birth of Jean-Baptiste Perrin
- 22 October 1870Birth of Ivan Bunin
- 5 December 1870Death of Alexandre Dumas
- 1871Aida
- 1871Publication of Through the Looking-Glass
- from 1 January 1871 to 9 November 1918German Empire
- 1871The Internationale
- from 28 January 1871 to 28 July 1914Belle Époque
- 5 March 1871Birth of Rosa Luxemburg
More in Art, literature & culture
- 1792Publication of La Marseillaise
- 7 May 1824Beethoven's Ninth Symphony premieres
- 26 November 1865Publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- 19 March 1882Construction of Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family
- from 1886 to 1905Rise of Post-impressionism
- from 6 April 1896 to 15 April 18961896 Summer Olympics
The era
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