Through the Looking-Glass: who's who, timeline and places
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- AliceAlice passes through a mirror and explores a house where living chess pieces cannot perceive her.First seen in chapter 1
- White QueenThe White Queen is a living chess piece whom Alice carries to her crying daughter, Lily.First seen in chapter 1
- White KingThe White King is one of the living chess pieces Alice helps in the reflected house.First seen in chapter 1
- Red QueenThe Red Queen gives Alice a place as a White Pawn and explains her route across the chessboard.First seen in chapter 2
- GnatThe Gnat shows Alice three unusual insects and discusses names and jokes with her.First seen in chapter 3
- Red KingThe Red King sleeps while the brothers insist that Alice exists only within his dream.First seen in chapter 4
- TweedledeeTweedledee recites a poem about deceived oysters and claims Alice belongs to the Red King's dream.First seen in chapter 4
- TweedledumTweedledum is one of the brothers who draw Alice into dancing, poetry, and preparations for battle.First seen in chapter 4
- SheepThe Sheep knits in a strange shop that Alice enters after crossing a brook.First seen in chapter 5
- Humpty DumptyHumpty Dumpty sits on a narrow wall and insists that words mean whatever he chooses.First seen in chapter 6
- LionThe Lion fights the Unicorn over a crown and pauses for bread and other refreshments.First seen in chapter 7
- UnicornThe Unicorn fights the Lion over a crown, and Alice agrees to believe in him.First seen in chapter 7
- White KnightThe White Knight protects Alice from the Red Knight and describes inventions while repeatedly falling from his horse.First seen in chapter 8
- Red KnightThe Red Knight claims Alice as his prisoner and fights the White Knight.First seen in chapter 8
- Chapter 1
Alice passes through the softened mirror and discovers living chess pieces in the reflected house.
- Chapter 1
Alice helps the White Queen and White King, then reads a puzzling poem using a mirror.
- Chapter 2
Alice meets talking flowers and reaches the Red Queen by walking in the opposite direction.
- Chapter 2
The Red Queen explains the chessboard landscape and gives Alice a place as a White Pawn.
- Chapter 3
Alice travels on a train without a ticket, and the train leaps over a brook.
- Chapter 3
Alice forgets her name in a wood and befriends a Fawn until their names return outside.
- Chapter 4
Tweedledee recites a poem about oysters, and the brothers claim Alice exists inside the sleeping Red King's dream.
- Chapter 4
The brothers prepare to battle over a broken rattle, but a huge crow scatters them.
- Chapter 5
Alice helps the White Queen dress and hears her explain backward memory and punishment.
- Chapter 5
Alice enters a Sheep's shop, experiences shifting surroundings, and buys an egg.
- Chapter 6
Humpty Dumpty argues with Alice about words, explains unfamiliar language, and dismisses her before a heavy crash shakes the forest.
- Chapter 7
Alice meets the White King and joins him to watch the Lion and the Unicorn fight over a crown.
- Chapter 7
During the refreshment break, Alice struggles to serve a strange cake and takes shelter from deafening drums.
- Chapter 8
The White Knight rescues Alice from the Red Knight and escorts her through the wood.
- Chapter 8
After the White Knight's farewell, Alice crosses into the Eighth Square and discovers a golden crown on her head.
- Chapter 9
The Red and White Queens challenge Alice's status with confusing questions before she joins a disorderly royal dinner.
- Chapter 9
Alice pulls everything off the dinner table and catches the tiny Red Queen.
- Chapter 10
Alice shakes the Red Queen, whose body becomes shorter, fatter, softer, and rounder.
Hidden until you have read that far.
- Looking-Glass HouseThe Looking-Glass House is the reflected house Alice enters through the softened mirror.First seen in chapter 1
- woodThe wood is a place where Alice cannot remember her name and befriends a Fawn.First seen in chapter 3
- Eighth SquareThe Eighth Square lies beyond the last brook, where Alice discovers a golden crown on her head.First seen in chapter 8
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