Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · Character
Edward Lear
Also known as Lear
- Minor
- First seen · Book 2
A name from the neighboring kingdom of nonsense, Edward Lear is invoked as a fellow traveler in the strange art of making the unreasonable feel perfectly at home. Even in passing, he lends the air of a private joke shared among imaginative minds.
- Gender
- male
- First appears
- Book 2
- Books
- 1
Edward Lear appears only as a point of comparison, a fellow practitioner of literary nonsense whose name helps frame Lewis Carroll’s distinctive comic imagination. The book offers no further account of him, so his role remains that of an influential presence glimpsed at the edge of Carroll’s story.
Description
The text does not describe Edward Lear’s appearance, so his face, coloring, build, hair, and clothing cannot be specified from this source. Any portrait should avoid invented identifying traits and treat him simply as a Victorian literary figure.
Story so far
BOOK 2Through The Looking Glass
Appearances
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