Artist of Wonderland

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Morris has almost certainly looked at every bit of art (extant and available) that Tenniel produced. Many of the theses advanced along the way are fresh and in some cases unprecedented. . . . The book can claim to be the standard work on Tenniel.
Richard Maxwell, Yale University, editor of The Victorian Illustrated Book

Wonderfully, Dr Frankie Morris has written a fine, true and highly readable biography of Sir John Tenniel, the great nineteenth-century cartoonist. Here for the first time, we have a splendidly serviceable analysis, well illustrated, of Tenniel's cartoons as instruments of political persuasion. Morris also offers many fresh and surprising insights into the Tenniel-Carroll relationship and the Alice illustrations.
Draper Hill, author of Mr Gillray, The Caricaturist
Frankie Miller has done us a great service in this book. If you are interested in John Tenniel you have a thorough biography, likewise, if you are interested in the magazine Punch, not quite from its inception on 17th July 1841, but through to the end of that century. The development of print technology as used by the magazine through the last half of the 19th century is well covered. Romp through British history, at home, in foreign fields and other major international events. But most of all look at Tenniel's collaboration with Carroll in the Alice books, which you'll want to read again, with Miller close at hand.
Stewart Rayment in Interlib, Journal of the Liberal Internacional British Group,n.6, pp 21-23, 2023.