First appears in Duchess's kitchen and tree branches. Engages Alice in philosophical conversations. Can disappear and reappear at will. Makes head appear without body during execution
Published in two volumes in 1868-1869, later combined into single novel in 1880. Based loosely on Alcott and her three sisters' lives. Immediate commercial and critical success. Created new genre combining children's fiction with sentimental novels
Book contains selection of 140 fairy tales from English folk. Quarter of tales collected in last ten years. Some tales not previously published
First recorded in 1797 in Samuel Arnold's Juvenile Amusements. Original rhyme contained four-score men and "could not make Humpty Dumpty". Modern version published in 1882 with trochaic meter and external rhymes
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