Webthrough the looking glass. Fiction | novel | middle grade | published in 1871. Webalice happily recounts her dream to her cats, suggests that snowdrop became the white queen and kitty became the red queen, and wonders if the dream was her own. Get the summaries, analysis, and quotes you need. The novel begins with alice sitting indoors on a winter afternoon, curled up in an armchair with her kitten for.