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Duchess (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
The Duchess is a character in Lewis Carroll's ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', published in 1865. Carroll does not describe her physically in much detail, although her hideous appearance is strongly established in the popular imagination thanks to John Tenniel's illustrations and from context it is clear that Alice finds her quite unattractive.
==Origin==
The Duchess is an antagonist of The Queen of Hearts. In her first appearance, the Duchess seems nearly as unpleasant as the Queen herself, but later on treats Alice with friendliness and respect.
According to Martin Gardner in ''The Annotated Alice'', John Tenniel's drawings of the Duchess were inspired by Quentin Matsys's ''The Ugly Duchess'' (c. 1513) in the National Gallery.〔Tom Lubbock, Great Works, ''The Independent'' 17 April 2009〕 It has been said that the painting is a portrait of Margaret, Countess of Tyrol, who had the reputation of being the ugliest woman who ever existed. The painting, however, was done 200 years after her death.
Another possible inspiration for the Duchess is Queen Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent, whose pre-coronation machinations and attempts to control her daughter led to her exclusion from her adult daughter's life and near exile. This would explain the antagonism between the two fictional characters as reflections of their models' lives at and around Court.
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