A concave distorting mirror that went to auction at Bonhams in 2016 had once belonged to which Victorian author?

Author Lewis Carroll's very own looking glass has sold for £5,000 - 145 years after he wrote the follow up to Alice in Wonderland that saw the young heroine travel through a mirror. The unusual mirror, which is in a wooden frame and measures 8.5 inches by 6.5 inches, has been sold by London auctioneers Bonhams for four times its estimated price.

The distorted concave mirror that belonged to Carroll perfectly reflects the topsy-turvy world of Wonderland - stretching the person holding it and turning them upside down. It was owned by the Victorian author before he gave it to a young girl called Evelyn Hatch, one of his photographic models, a few years after the sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There was published in 1871.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll. He was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which includes the poem "Jabberwocky", and the poem "The Hunting of the Snark".