Mr Love is a gentlemanly diplomat, polite and charming, or so he would have you believe; in fact he is a fortune hunter, marrying vulnerable women and stealing their nest-eggs. At first, Adelaide is just another victim, but the plot twists and turns when he becomes emotionally involved with her.

Mysterious Mr. Love

Leach, Karoline

Humor & Entertainment

Samuel French Inc Plays

Mr Love is an organised person. He knows what he wants and he gets it - marrying vulnerable women and stealing their nest-eggs. Adelaide works in a hat shop off the Edgware Road, has a diamond brooch Auntie Myra left her, and a dream of better things. This is the story of what happens when they find one another.

Tryst

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Samuel French Ltd.

'Lewis Carroll was not the tragic deviant all previous biographers have assumed him to be. He was not in love with Alice Liddell or obsessed with little girls...The objects of his intense sexual desire were women, full-blooded, 'tall and lithe'. His one testament of passion is of erotic physical consummation with a mature and powerful woman. In his most private writings, he identified himself with the sin of David, which was not masturbation, or unruly fantasy, but adultery.....David's Psalm of keening repentance, 'make me a clean heart oh God', was Dodgson's most frequently-invoked prayer...' This is the central argument that has made this new biography of Lewis Carroll both controversial and enthralling. It uses new research to show that the long-standing image of Lewis Carroll (the pen-name of the author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson): his exclusively child-centred and unworldly life, his legendary obsession with Alice Liddell, and his supposedly unnatural sexuality, are in fact nothing more than myths. With precision and analysis the book traces the development of this false persona and demonstrates how generations of biographers have helped to create fictions about Lewis Carroll's life, rather than bring the documentary facts before the public. The dismantling of the myth, and the new image that is put in its place are inevitably controversial. Not everyone will be able to accept its conclusions, but the amount of new original research it contains means it is an immensely significant book, and one that anyone who has any interest in Lewis Carroll and his work, probably ought to have read. With its careful analysis, and its Gothic tale of cut pages, death bed confessions and hidden secrets, it is both an important scholastic work, and a book for anyone who enjoys an historical detective story.

In the Shadow of the Dreamchild: A New Understanding of Lewis Carroll

History & Criticism

Peter Owen Ltd

In the Shadow of the Dreamchild uses new research to show that the long-standing image of the life of Charles Dodgson, better known to millions of fans around the world as Lewis Carroll, as exclusively child-centred and unworldly, his preoccupation with Alice Liddell, and his supposedly unnatural sexuality are all in fact nothing more than myths: that they belong to an invented persona, created around the name "Carroll," and have almost nothing to do with Dodgson's real but overshadowed life. Meticulously researched, the book traces the development of this false persona and demonstrates how generations of biographers have helped to create fictions about Dodgson's life, rather than bring the documentary facts before the public. It uses the data to recreate a startlingly new picture of Dodgson's personality, his experiences, and, crucially, his all-important relationship with the Liddell family. In the Shadow of the Dreamchild challenges almost every scholastic and literary insight on Carroll that has developed over the past century.

In the Shadow of the Dreamchild: The Myth and Reality of Lewis Carroll

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Peter Owen Publishers

A revolutionary and much-acclaimed study of the work and motives of the Alice In Wonderland author This is the most significant biographical work on the author of Alice In Wonderland to be published in recent years, and this new edition marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Karoline Leach’s study contends that Carroll was far from being emotionally—and sexually—obsessed with female children and his "muse" Alice Liddell. She tells the strange story of how the false image of Carroll came into being and how he adored—and was adored by—women of all ages and enjoyed adult relationships that woud have scandalized the Victorian age in which he lived. The author gained access to unpublished evidence from the family archive, as well as letters and diaries, that led her to uncover Carroll’s secret passion for another member of "Alice’s" family. In The Shadow of The Dreamchild is a radical re-evaluation of the life and work of one of England’s most mysterious literary figures, and the revised edition expands on Leach’s important research.

Lewis Carroll. La vera storia del papà di Alice

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Mysterious Mr. Love

Tryst

In the Shadow of the Dreamchild: A New Understanding of Lewis Carroll

In the Shadow of the Dreamchild: The Myth and Reality of Lewis Carroll

In the Shadow of the Dreamchild: The Myth and Reality of Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll. La vera storia del papà di Alice