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Lewis Carroll was not the inventor of the Cheshire cat and the originator of the sentence “to grin like a Cheshire cat” either. He just popularised it. The first mention of the sentence is in Peter Pindar's “Pair of Lyric Epistles” published in 1795, which contain the line: “Lo, like a Cheshire cat our court will grin.”

Lewis Carroll was not the inventor of the Cheshire cat and the originator of the sentence “to grin like a Cheshire cat” either. He just popularised it. The first mention of the sentence is in Peter Pindar's “Pair of Lyric Epistles” published in 1795, which contain the line: “Lo, like a Cheshire cat our court will grin.”A few years before, in 1788, Francis Grose published “A classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue” which contains the sentence : “CHESHIRE CAT. He grins like a Cheshire cat; said of any one who shows his teeth and gums in laughing.” Cheshire is also the name of a county in the north-west of England also named county of Chester. Lewis Carroll was born there.

A few years before, in 1788, Francis Grose published “A classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue” which contains the sentence : “CHESHIRE CAT. He grins like a Cheshire cat; said of any one who shows his teeth and gums in laughing.” Cheshire is also the name of a county in the north-west of England also named county of Chester. Lewis Carroll was born there.

Why the Cheshire cat can smile and disappear?

In the county of Cheshire, there is The In the county of Cheshire, there is The Cheshire Cheese Company. It produces today Cheshire Cheese Company. It produces today

many kinds of cheese from cow milk. The many kinds of cheese from cow milk. The legend says that they used to produce a legend says that they used to produce a

cheese cat-shaped where the cat seems to cheese cat-shaped where the cat seems to smile. The cheese was cut from the tail to the smile. The cheese was cut from the tail to the head. That is the reason why the Cheshire cat head. That is the reason why the Cheshire cat

smiles in “Alice In Wonderland”. It also smiles in “Alice In Wonderland”. It also disappears from his tail to it smile, like the disappears from his tail to it smile, like the

cheese.cheese.

The Cheshire cat’s role in Alice in Wonderland:

The Cheshire cat is the only character The Cheshire cat is the only character described as Alice’s friend. It also gives described as Alice’s friend. It also gives

Alice directions thereby allowing the Alice directions thereby allowing the progression of the story: it guides Alice to progression of the story: it guides Alice to the the March Hare and to the Red Queen, it March Hare and to the Red Queen, it enables Alice to find the rabbit and the enables Alice to find the rabbit and the

solution to leave wonderland.solution to leave wonderland.

The The Cheshire cat on differents Cheshire cat on differents adaptations of «Alice in Wonderland» adaptations of «Alice in Wonderland»

on cinema :on cinema :

1. In 1951 an animated film by disney.

2.2. In 1999 a television film by Nick WillingIn 1999 a television film by Nick Willing

3.3. In 2010 a computer animation film by Tim Burton.In 2010 a computer animation film by Tim Burton.3.3. In 2010 a computer animation film by Tim Burton.In 2010 a computer animation film by Tim Burton.

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The Cheshire cat’s smile

The Cheshire Cat is a tabby cat fiction that appears in the

novel Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865).

He has big yellow eyes, he has a lot of teeth, and

a big smile.

We can suppose than he was inspired by a cat made in stone in Croft Church.

Croft on Tees, St Peter's Church

Because he looks like him and Lewis Carroll's father was the rector of

the church.

If you stand up in front of the stone cat, his grin disappears, as

in the film.

“Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin, 'thought Alice' but a smile without a cat! This is the most curious thing I ever saw in my life! “

Alice in Wonderland, 1865

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