Alice with a golden crown

Title: Through the looking-glass: and what Alice found there. Author: Lewis Carroll. Publisher: T. Y. Crowell & co., 1893. Original from: Harvard University. Digitized: Apr 14, 2008. Length: 227 pages. "Oh, how glad I am to get here! And what is this on my head ?" she exclaimed in a tone of dismay, as she put her hands up to something very heavy, that fitted tight all round her head. "But how can it have got there without my knowing it ?" she said to herself, as she lifted it off, and set it on her lap to make out what it could possibly be.

It was a golden crown.

Image by Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell March 5, 1862 – January 15, 1924, American artist and author, born in McDonough County, Illinois. Newell often illustrated the works of other authors, such as Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, John Kendrick Bangs, and Lewis Carroll.

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