The Animals of Wonderland: Tenniel as Carroll's Reader.(Critical Essay)(Biography) From: Criticism | Date: September 22, 2003| Author: Lovell-Smith, Rose | COPYRIGHT 2003 Wayne State University Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

WHEN JOHN TENNIEL was providing 42 illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1864 he was in his mid-forties, an established illustrator and a Punch cartoonist. At that time C. L. Dodgson and Lewis Carroll were equally unknown as authors, for adults or children. Tenniel, on the other hand, already had a professional understanding of the visual codes and illustrative techniques of his day, and already had an audience--an adult rather than a child audience--who would expec...