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Rose Franklin, one of Carroll’s child-friends, recalled in a memoir that Carroll had said to her, “I cannot decide what to make the Red Queen turn into.” Rose replied: “She looks so cross, please turn her into the Black Kitten.”
“That will do splendidly,” Carroll is reported to have said, “and the White Queen shall be the White Kitten.”
Recall that in Chapter 1, before she fell asleep, Alice said to the black kitten, “Let’s pretend that you’re the Red Queen.”
