White Queen (Through the Looking-Glass) Alice "a-dressing" the
White Queen. Art by John Tenniel (1865) |First
appearance||Through the Looking-Glass| |Created by||Lewis
Carroll| |Children||Lily (a pawn)| Along with her husband the
White King, she is one of the first characters to be seen in the
story. She first appears in the drawing room just beyond the
titular looking-glass as an animate chesspiece unable to see or
hear Alice, the main character. The Queen is looking for her
daughter Lily; Alice helps her by lifting the White Queen and
King onto the table, leading them to believe they were thrown up
by an invisible volcano. When Alice meets the Red Queen and
joins the Chess game, she takes the place of a white pawn, Lily
being too young to play. She does not meet the White Queen as a
human-sized character until the Fifth Square. The White Queen
lives backwards in time, due to the fact that she lives through
the eponymous looking glass. Her behaviour is odd to Alice. She
offers Alice "jam to-morrow and jam ye