Stock Photo - This illustration of Alice and the White Knight is from ""Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There"" by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), who wrote this novel in 1871 as a sequel to ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. "" The White Knight is a fictional character that Alice meets in the garden. He is based on a chess player. It is the White Knight who rescues Alice from the Red Knight and he escorts her to the eighth square of the chess board, where the Red Queen said she would make Alice a queen if she reached it. was on the ground and not able to hear or see Alice, but then all changes after she picks him up, and also the White Queen. The White Knight is shown riding in a unique way - leaning forward over the bridle and standing in the stirrups.