The Wasp in a Wig: A 'Suppressed' Episode of Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

About this book

Now more than one hundred years after Lewis Carrolls immortal "Through the Looking-Glass" was published lovers of the "Alice" books have a new episode written by Carroll in which Alice meets an aged bad-tempered wasp who wears a yellow wig. The episode which was originally intended to follow the White Knight sequence in Chapter VIII is rich in Carrollian humor nonsense and wordplay; and it contains a five-stanza poem referencing the yellow wig. According to Martin Gardner the discovery and publication of "The Wasp in a Wig" is an event of great significance not only for Carrollians but for anyone interested in language humor the adventures of Alice or for that matter wasps.