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Selwyn Goodacre

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Selwyn Goodacre is a retired General Medical Practitioner. He has a large Lewis Carroll collection including over 2000 copies of the Alice books. He is a past chairman of the Lewis Carroll Society, and edited the Society journal from 1974-1997. He pursues an interest in all aspects of Children's literature and more particularly in the works of Beatrix Potter and E Nesbit as well as Lewis Carroll. For years one of his special interests has been in the text of the Alice books, and a fascination for the books themselves, which has led to his recently published “Elucidating Alice, A Textual Commentary on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland “ (evertype, Eire 2015).