Abstract
This chapter explores the multifaceted significance of plants and vegetation in Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. The role played by gardens, flowers, and woods in the Alice books is an active one: vegetation does not only offer a setting for Alice’s vicissitudes, but it also influences her actions and modifies her identity. The Victorian era witnessed a veritable obsession with gardens and flowers, and, in particular, with the association between women and gardens: “what Michael Waters has called, in Ruskinian language, ‘the Queen of the Garden role’ in Victorian culture”. Lewis Carroll’s Alice books take this traditional Victorian children’s literature motif, and turn it upside down, as they do with many other typical tropes of children’s literature and moral messages.
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