The Westminster Alice Illustrated Edition

Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also as H H Munro, was a British writer whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. The Westminster Alice, a collection of vignettes published by the Westminster Gazette in 1902, is a political parody of Lewis Carroll's two Alice books. It is critical of the politics of the day, of which Alice tries to make sense, and a number of notable British politicians are identified in the book including Joseph Chamberlain as the Queen of Hearts, the Red Queen and the Mad Hatter, and Arthur Balfour as the White Queen and the March Hare. The book includes 48 drawings after the originals by John Tenniel which were drawn by Francis Carruthers Gould (1844-1925), a highly regarded caricaturist and political cartoonist who contributed to the Westminster Gazette and later acted as its assistant editor.