In the 1890s she wrote comic poems that were published in American children's magazines. Brewster, whose given middle name was Mary, not Matlack, became a renowned artist under her married name.Īccording to Carolyn Sigler, Anna Matlack was already known as a poet and playwright before she married William Trost Richards in 1856, age 20 or 21. The 2009 Evertype edition credits mother and daughter under their full names Alice Matlack Richards (1835–1900) and Anna Richards Brewster. Cover of a recent edition (Evertype Publishing, 2009) With apology to Tenniel and Carroll ('We're not original, nor wise, nor witty'), they plead for mercy from the Critic. Now grown up, one of them made the pictures. Richards was the mother, who gave them more of what they knew and loved. R., Sr.' A rhyming poem in four stanzas, it indicates that the story originated years ago when 'unreasonable children three' would accept nothing but the Wonderland of Alice.

The Preface, pp. 5–6 in the first edition, is illustrated by a drawing of three children and signed 'A. It is illustrated with 67 drawings by the writer's daughter, closely 'after' the originals by John Tenniel. Ī New Alice features Alice Lee, an American girl with a coincidental name, visiting Wonderland and meeting all the characters she knows from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871). According to Carolyn Sigler, it is one of the more important 'Alice imitations', or novels inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice books. Richards Jr., and published in 1895 by J. A New Alice in the Old Wonderland is a fantasy novel written by Anna M.

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