Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Alice

The curious young girl at the center of the story, whose size changes repeatedly as she explores Wonderland. She wakes from her adventures and tells her sister about her dream.

Alice’s sister

Also known as Sister

Alice’s older sister, who sits with her on the riverbank and listens to her account of Wonderland. She later dreams about Alice’s adventures and imagines Alice growing up to tell stories to children.

White Rabbit

Also known as Rabbit

A hurried, waistcoat-wearing rabbit who leads Alice down the rabbit-hole and mistakes her for his housemaid. He later joins the Queen’s procession and serves as herald at the trial.

Dinah

Alice’s beloved cat, who stays at home and is known for catching mice and birds.

Ada

A girl Alice knows; Alice thinks of her while wondering whether she has changed into someone else.

Mabel

A girl Alice knows, whom Alice fears she may have become because Mabel knows very little and has few toys.

Alice’s brother

Also known as Brother

Alice’s brother, whose Latin grammar she remembers while trying to address the Mouse.

Mouse

A mouse Alice meets in the pool of tears. It hates cats and dogs, has authority among the animals, and begins telling a story before walking away.

Duck

A bird in the pool-of-tears party who questions the Mouse’s recitation.

Dodo

A solemn bird in the pool-of-tears party who organizes a Caucus-race and declares everyone a winner.

Lory

A bird in the pool-of-tears party who argues with Alice and comments on the Mouse’s story.

Eaglet

A young bird in the pool-of-tears party who criticizes the Dodo’s long words.

William the Conqueror

Also known as William

A historical figure mentioned in the Mouse’s recitation about the Norman conquest of England.

Edwin

An earl of Mercia mentioned in the Mouse’s recitation.

Morcar

An earl of Northumbria mentioned in the Mouse’s recitation.

Stigand

The archbishop of Canterbury mentioned in the Mouse’s recitation.

Edgar Atheling

A historical figure mentioned in the Mouse’s recitation as going with William to offer him the crown.

Fury

A character in the Mouse’s embedded poem who threatens to prosecute a mouse and acts as judge and jury.

Poem Mouse

The mouse in the poem the Mouse recites; it argues with Fury about being put on trial.

Cur

The dog addressed in the Mouse’s embedded poem, who objects to Fury’s proposed trial.

Old Crab

Also known as Crab

An older crab at the pool who tells her daughter not to lose her temper.

Young Crab

Also known as Crab’s daughter

The daughter of the Old Crab, who snaps back at her mother.

Magpie

An older bird in the pool-of-tears party who leaves after hearing Alice praise Dinah’s bird-catching.

Canary

A bird in the pool-of-tears party who calls to its children to go home after hearing about Dinah.

Canary’s children

The Canary’s children, whom it calls to come away and go to bed.

Mary Ann

The White Rabbit’s housemaid, mentioned but not seen; the Rabbit mistakes Alice for her.

Pat

A servant of the White Rabbit, addressed as Pat and sent to help get Alice out of the house.

Bill

Also known as Lizard

A small lizard in the White Rabbit’s household who is sent down the chimney and later helped by two guinea-pigs. He later serves as a juror at the trial.

Puppy

An enormous, playful puppy Alice encounters in the wood while she is tiny.

Caterpillar

A large blue caterpillar who questions Alice and tells her that the two sides of a mushroom change her size.

Father William

The father in the poem Alice recites at the Caterpillar’s request; he answers his son’s questions with absurd claims.

Father William’s son

Also known as Young man · Youth

The young man who questions Father William in the poem Alice recites.

Pigeon

A nesting bird who mistakes Alice’s long neck for a serpent and fears serpents will take its eggs.

Fish-Footman

A footman in livery with a fish-like face who brings the Duchess an invitation from the Queen.

Frog-Footman

Also known as Footman

A footman in livery with a round, frog-like face who receives the Queen’s invitation for the Duchess.

Duchess

The owner of the house Alice enters and the baby’s caretaker. The Queen sentences her to execution for boxing the Queen’s ears, but she later walks away when offered a choice between her head and leaving.

Cook

The Duchess’s cook, who makes peppery soup and throws kitchenware around the room. She later appears as a witness at the trial and refuses to give evidence.

Baby

Also known as Pig

The Duchess’s baby, whom Alice carries away; it turns into a pig and trots into the wood.

Cheshire Cat

Also known as Cheshire Puss · Cat

The grinning cat in the Duchess’s kitchen who can appear and vanish, and gives Alice directions toward the March Hare and Hatter. At the Queen’s croquet game, it debates with the King and executioner about whether it can be beheaded.

March Hare

A Wonderland hare who lives in a fur-roofed house and hosts the perpetual tea-party with the Hatter and Dormouse. He later appears as a witness at the trial.

Hatter

A tea-party guest who lives in Wonderland and says he was punished by the Queen of Hearts after singing. He is the first witness at the trial.

Dormouse

A sleepy tea-party guest who sits between the March Hare and Hatter and speaks while dozing. It tells a nonsense story about three sisters and is later thrown out of court.

Queen of Hearts

Also known as Queen

The ruler who invited the Duchess to croquet and repeatedly orders executions. She presides over the trial and insists on sentencing before a verdict.

Time

A personified being the Hatter says he once quarreled with; since then, it has kept the tea-party stuck at six o’clock.

Elsie

One of the three little sisters in the Dormouse’s story, who live at the bottom of a treacle-well and learn to draw.

Lacie

One of the three little sisters in the Dormouse’s story, who live at the bottom of a treacle-well and learn to draw.

Tillie

One of the three little sisters in the Dormouse’s story, who live at the bottom of a treacle-well and learn to draw.

Five

A card gardener painting white roses red in the Queen’s garden. Five blames Seven for jostling an elbow and warns that the Queen may execute them.

Seven

A card gardener painting white roses red in the Queen’s garden. Seven says Five is shifting blame and is accused of bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.

Two

A card gardener painting white roses red in the Queen’s garden. Two explains that the gardeners planted the wrong rose-tree and kneels to address the Queen.

King of Hearts

Also known as King

The Queen’s husband, who tempers her threats and later serves as judge at the trial. He pardons those sentenced during the croquet game.

Knave of Hearts

Also known as Knave

A courtier who carries the King’s crown in the procession and is later imprisoned and tried for allegedly stealing the Queen’s tarts.

Executioner

The Queen’s executioner, who argues that the Cheshire Cat cannot be beheaded without a body. He is sent to fetch the Duchess during the dispute.

Gryphon

A Wonderland creature who takes Alice to meet the Mock Turtle and joins in telling stories, singing, and dancing. It says the Queen never actually executes anyone.

Mock Turtle

A melancholy creature who says he was once a real turtle and tells Alice about his schooling under the sea. He dances the Lobster Quadrille and sings “Beautiful Soup” with the Gryphon.

Tortoise

Also known as Old Turtle

The old Turtle who taught the Mock Turtle at school under the sea; the pupils called him Tortoise because he taught them.

Drawling-master

An old conger-eel who came to the Mock Turtle’s school once a week to teach Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils.

Classics master

An old crab who taught the Gryphon Classics and the Mock Turtle’s schoolmates Laughing and Grief.

Whiting

A fish who appears in the Mock Turtle’s song, asking a snail to hurry because a porpoise is close behind.

Snail

The cautious snail in the Mock Turtle’s song who declines to join the dance because it would go too far.

Porpoise

The porpoise in the Mock Turtle’s song, said to be following the whiting and snail; the Mock Turtle jokes that fish need a ‘porpoise’ when they travel.

Owl

A character in a nonsense poem Alice recites, sharing a pie with a Panther.

Panther

A character in a nonsense poem Alice recites, sharing a pie with an Owl.

Shark

A shark mentioned in a verse Alice recites, which the lobster speaks contemptuously of when the tide is low.