The Wasp in a Wig: A Suppressed Episode of Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
by Lewis Carroll 
Alice's Adventures (Adaptations & Addenda — 2b)
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Alice encounters a wasp wearing a yellow wig. This "suppressed" section would have followed, or been included at the end of, chapter 8 of Through the Looking-Glass, the chapter featuring the encounter with the White Knight.Tags
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Charles Luthwidge Dodgson was born in Daresbury, England on January 27, 1832. He became a minister of the Church of England and a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church College, Oxford. He was the author, under his own name, of An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, Symbolic Logic, and other scholarly treatises. He is better known by his pen show more name of Lewis Carroll. Using this name, he wrote Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. He was also a pioneering photographer, and he took many pictures of young children, especially girls, with whom he seemed to empathize. He died on January 14, 1898. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1977
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- . . . and she was just going to spring over, when she heard a deep sigh, which seemed to come from the wood behind her.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Good-bye, and thank-ye," said the Wasp, and Alice tripped down the hill again, quite pleased that she had gone back and given a few minutes to making the poor old creature comfortable.
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