Looking-Glass world

The Looking-Glass world is the setting for Lewis Carroll's 1871 children's novel Through the Looking-Glass.

Looking-Glass world
Through the Looking-Glass location
The Looking-Glass world as illustrated by John Tenniel (1872 edition)
The Looking-Glass world as illustrated by Peter Newell (1902 edition)
Created by	Lewis Carroll
Genre	Children's fantasy
In-universe information
Type	Monarchy
Ruled by	White King, Red King
Ethnic group(s)	Whites, Reds
Locations	Looking-Glass House, Garden of Live Flowers, The Old Sheep Shop, Humpty Dumpty's wall
Character(s)	White Knight, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, White Queen, Red Queen
Language(s)	Looking-Glass language (mirror-image English)

Geography

... and a most curious country it was.

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

Inhabitants

• Haigha
• Hatta
• Humpty Dumpty
• The Lion and the Unicorn
• Red King
• Red Queen
• The Sheep
• Tweedledum and Tweedledee
• White King
• White Knight
• White Queen

In other media

• The Looking-glass world is featured in Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. In this series, the world is known as Wonderland and the Looking-glass world is just a realm within Wonderland, ruled by the Red King and Queen.

See also

• Children's literature portal

• Wonderland (fictional country)

References

• Manguel, Alberto; Gianni Guadalupi (2000). The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (Newly updated and expanded ed.). San Diego: Harcourt. pp. 382–383. ISBN 0-15-600872-6.

External links

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