The Wasp in a Wig
| First published | 1977 |
|---|---|
| Type | Short Fiction |
| Length | Short Story |
| Series | Alice |
On the verge of crossing the last brook and being crowned a queen, Alice hears the expressive sighs of someone very unhappy, and turns aside into the wood.
- "Suppressed episode" of Through the Looking-Glass 1977/78 publications, and probably others, include a facsimile of the purported galley proofs.
- (If genuine) Lewis Carroll removed this episode from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, on the suggestion of John Tenniel, who rejected it for illustration. It followed the longer White Knight episode and concluded chapter eight.
- Some publications that contain the novel may include this episode without presenting it as one of the main contents, even as "reinstated", so it is likely to be overlooked in some ISFDB and library records.
- This is widely accepted as the wasp episode Tenniel rejected, and Carroll removed from the novel, recovered from an artifact that Sotheby's sold in 1974 as the original corrected galley proofs--not examined by experts as of 2015. --Karoline Leach (contrariwise.info), who doubts
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 |
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The Wasp in a Wig: A "Suppressed" Episode of Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There | Lewis Carroll Society of North America | Chapbook | 13 |
| November 1977 |
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The Wasp in a Wig: A "Suppressed" Episode of Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There | Macmillan UK | Chapbook | |1 |
| February 1978 |
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The Wasp in a Wig: A "Suppressed" Episode of Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There | Clarkson N. Potter | Chapbook | |1 |
| November 1999 |
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The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition | W. W. Norton & Company | Omnibus | 275 |
| 2015 |
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The Annotated Alice: 150th Anniversary Deluxe Edition | W. W. Norton & Company | Omnibus | 339 |
| July 2015 |
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The Complete Alice | Macmillan Children's Books | Omnibus | 433 |