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From: Jerusalem Post
Date: 19990520
Author:Meir Ronnen

Meir Ronnen
Jerusalem Post
05-20-1999
IN THE SHADOW OF THE DREAMCHILD: A New Understanding of Lewis Carroll by Karoline Leach. London, Peter Owen. 294pp. 19.95.

Armchair Freudians (as opposed to the couch type) have long had a field day with Alice in Wonderland; and biographies of Charles Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, continue to flow thick and fast. Till now, all Dodgson's biographers have painted a picture of a bachelor of impeccable if sublimated behavior, whatever his proclivities. Now comes a smart young Englishwoman to explode the post-mortem myth that the Rev. Dodgson's interest in the ...

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