Karoline Leach
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Karoline Leach is a British playwright and author, best known for her book In the Shadow of the Dreamchild (ISBN 0-7206-1044-3), which re-examines the life of Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This book and her subsequent work on what she terms the "Carroll Myth" have been major sources of upheaval and controversy in recent years and she has produced very polarized responses from Carroll scholars and lay enthusiasts.
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[edit] Controversy over book
On the one side there has been a call for her book to be burned [1] and the Dodgson family took the unprecedented step of making a public announcement refuting all support for her findings [2], while authorities like Morton Cohen, Donald Rackin and Martin Gardner have sought to downplay or dismiss her importance. On the other side, she is hailed as a major new voice, and editorials in The Guardian, The Spectator, the Contemporary Review and The Carrollian avow she has brought us "nearer now than before to the man who wrote Alice" , made sure "Carroll studies will never be the same again" [3], or finally given us the "whole truth" about the man and his life [4].
In her second 'life' as a playwright, Leach had her first play "The Mysterious Mr Love" produced in London's West End in 1997. It has since been produced in venues all over the world, including Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Europe. Her new play 'Tryst' opened off-Broadway at the Promenade Theatre, on April 6 2006.
Leach was born in Liverpool and lives in the UK with her husband and three children.[1]
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- Karoline Leach on the web
- In the Shadow of the Dreamchild
- Looking for Lewis Carroll
- Contrariwise; the association for new Lewis Carroll studies
