Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a novel by Lewis Carroll, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Set six months later than the earlier book, Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. The Snap-Dragonfly's name and form is a pun on a traditional game called snap-dragon combined with a plant called a snapdragon and a dragonfly. John Tenniel (February 28, 1820, February 25, 1914) was an English illustrator, graphic humourist, and political cartoonist prominent in the second half of the 19th century. |