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In the Shadow of the Dreamchild.(Review)(Brief Article)

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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 19990801
Author:Heptonstall, Geoffrey

Karoline Leach. Peter Owen. [pounds]19.95. 294 pages. ISBN 0-7206-1044-3.

Lewis Carroll was more than a pseudonym. He was another identity which became a mythic presence. That there never was such a person, that his creator lived a different life, is irrelevant to the myth. Everyone knows about Lewis Carroll, yet almost everything, even when evidenced by personal recollections, photographs and letters, is an invention.

The reasons for invention are varied. Charles Dodgson (who became Carroll) is himself the primary culprit, creating an innocent public image behind which ...

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