Born Isabel Dulcie Dunlop, Ladds is known for her plays, stories, and serial publications. She wrote primarily about domestic issues and relationships between men and women.[2] Most of her stories are set in Queensland, Australia. Her play, We have Our Dreams, was inspired by her time spent living on a banana plantation with her husband, Samuel Charles Ladds.[3] The play was first produced in 1957.[4] It was later translated into German and performed at the Baden Baden on the 15 March 1959.[5] In her 1987 daughter Lola Tarnawski published, Such Stuff As Dreams, a biography of Ladds and a history detailing the writing of We have Our Dreams.[6]
Ladds also ran a studio centered on dance and dramatic art in Brisbane, Australia.[7]
In 1938 Ladds won the Twelfth Night competition for her play What of Michael.[8] In 1942 she was awarded the C.J. Dennis Memorial Award for We have Our Dreams.[1][9]
^Tarnawski, Lola; Ladds, Dulcie Dunlop (1987-01-01). Such Stuff As Dreams. ISBN0-7316-1677-4.
^"Dancing". The Catholic Advocate. Vol. XX, no. 1031. Queensland, Australia. 5 March 1931. p. 35. Retrieved 15 May 2024 – via National Library of Australia.