Not exactly distinguished, the illustrations nevertheless explore the extent to which the imagery and narrative of Lewis Carroll's Alice was sufficiently embedded in the national consciousness to make political points, in the way that a straight critique could not. Here Clara is the Leader of the House Balfour, other derivations are listed on the Wikipedia entry. And the book's the attack was mustered againt the Government's policy in the second Boer War. The narrative of Struwwelpeter was similalry deployed at the time to the same ends.