The Duchess is a character invented by Lewis Caroll, who appeared for the first time in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll, in 1865. Caroll 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. The Duchess (and the characters which accompany her) is a character that was only added successively, in the 1865 version, and not in the earlier ones.