Looking-Glass Land is the setting for Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the...

's 1871 children's novel Through the Looking-Glass

Through the Looking-Glass

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a work of literature by Lewis Carroll . It is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...

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Geography

The entire country is divided into squares by a series of little brooks with hedges growing perpendicular to them.

Government

The land is contested by two competing factions, the Reds and the Whites

White and Black in chess

In chess, the player who moves first is referred to as "White" and the player who moves second is referred to as "Black". Similarly, the pieces that each conducts are called, respectively, "the white pieces" and "the black pieces". The pieces are often not literally white and black, but some...

. Each side has its King and Queen, knights, armies, and castles.

Religion

Religion is not mentioned by Carroll, but there are bishops in the land, and an entire chapter is devoted to them in the 1895 sequel novel by Anna Matlack Richards, A New Alice in the Old Wonderland

A New Alice in the Old Wonderland

A New Alice in the Old Wonderland is a novel by Anna Matlack Richards, written in 1895 and published by J. B. Lippincott of Philadelphia. It is, according to Carolyn Sigler, one of the more important "Alice imitations", or novels inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice books.It concerns Alice Lee, an...

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Inhabitants

• Haigha
  March Hare
  Haigha, the March Hare is a character most famous for appearing in the tea party scene in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.The main character, Alice, hypothesises,...
  
  
• Hatta
• Humpty Dumpty
  Humpty Dumpty
  Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English language nursery rhyme, probably originally a riddle and one of the best known in the English-speaking world. He is typically portrayed as an egg and has appeared or been referred to in a large number of works of literature and popular culture...
  
  
• The Lion and the Unicorn
  The Lion and the Unicorn
  The Lion and the Unicorn are symbols of the United Kingdom. They are, properly speaking, heraldic supporters appearing in the full Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom. The lion stands for England and the unicorn for Scotland...
  
  
• Red King
  Red King (Through the Looking Glass)
  The Red King is a character who appears in Lewis Carroll's fantasy story Through the Looking-Glass. Since the whole story revolves around a game of chess, he is characteristic of the king in such a game in that he has all of the pieces on his side available to perform the work for him; unlike his...
  
  
• Red Queen
  Red Queen (Through the Looking Glass)
  The Red Queen is a fictional character in Lewis Carroll's fantasy novella, Through the Looking-Glass.- Overview :With a motif of Through the Looking-Glass being representations of the game of chess, the Red Queen could be viewed as an antagonist in the story as she is the queen for the side...
  
  
• The Sheep
  The sheep
  The Sheep is a character, created by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll. It appeared in Dodgson's book, Through the Looking-Glass, the sequel to his book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.- Storyline :...
  
  
• Tweedledum and Tweedledee
  Tweedledum and Tweedledee
  Tweedledum and Tweedledee are fictional characters in an English language nursery rhyme and in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Their names may have originally come from an epigram written by poet John Byrom. The nursery rhyme has a Roud Folk Song Index number...
  
  
• White King
  White King (Through the Looking Glass)
  The White King is a fictional character who appears in Lewis Carroll's fantasy story Through the Looking-Glass. Aside from Alice herself, he is one of the earliest chesspieces that are introduced into the story...
  
  
• White Knight
• White Queen
  White Queen (Through the Looking Glass)
  The White Queen is a fictional character who appears in Lewis Carroll's fantasy novella Through the Looking-Glass.-Plot:Along with her husband the White King, she is one of the first characters to be seen in the story. She first appears in the drawing room just beyond the titular looking-glass as...
  
  

External links

• Map of "The Looking-Glass Lands" by Triple Ace Games