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It was finally published nearly 120 years after the book first appeared. Carroll took out this section from the book before its publication, possibly because his illustrator, John Tenniel, couldn’t ‘see way to a picture’ (according to a letter Tenniel wrote to Carroll in June 1870). If you’ve ever used the words ‘chortle’ or ‘galumph’, or encountered the linguistic term ‘ portmanteau word’, or the phrase ‘jam tomorrow but never jam today’, or the idea of ‘being through the looking-glass now’, you’re dealing with the legacy of Through the Looking-Glass.Ĭuriously, one chapter of the novel, featuring a wasp in a wig, remained unpublished until 1990.

Through the Looking-Glass has embedded itself within the popular consciousness, and even the everyday language we use, more than pretty much any other single work of children’s literature – indeed, even more so than the novel it was a sequel to, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.