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Post by mikeindex on Jul 25, 2015 13:34:38 GMT -5
Unquestionably the most (some might say the only) ground-breaking full-length biographical study of Lewis Carroll has just been issued in a new edition to mark the 150th anniversary of the first publication of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland': www.peterowenpublishers.com/books/in-the-shadow-of-the-dreamchild-the-myth-and-reality-of-lewis-carroll/The choice of anniversary might be seen as mildly ironic, given a) the quantity of writing over the years about Dodgson, Alice and the genesis of 'Alice', and b) Karoline Leach's role in exposing much of it as the nonsense it is. Nonetheless, a re-issue of the revised 2nd edition of this massively (if often unacknowledgedly) influential work is both timely and extremely welcome. It is strongly recommended reading for anyone with an interest in exploring Charles Dodgson as a real person rather than a caricature. A real, flesh-and-blood person who, whatever his sundry oddities, did not live in an ivory tower, was the absolute opposite of a recluse, loved art, loved the theatre and loved - adult! - women. For those who have already read Jenny Woolf's book - let me stress, Leach's came first. Mike
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