 Her life and work has been the subject of many articles, television documentaries, and biographies.A 1979 "New York Times" article described her life story as "one of the Western World's most intriguing and convincing modern case histories of reincarnation".Dorothy Louise Eady was born in London in 1904 into an Irish lower-middle-class family as the only child to Reuben Ernest Eady, a master tailor and Caroline Mary (Frost) Eady, and raised in a coastal town.