Florence Becker Lennon

Florence Becker Lennon (1895–1984) was an American author. Quotes The Life of Lewis Carroll (1962) How did it happen that the Reverend Charles Dodgson, thirty years of age, lecturer on geometry at Christ Church, Oxford, hitherto remarkable chiefly for his precision, on a single July afternoon, while rowing up the Isis with a brother don and three little girls, parthenogenetically gave birth to one of the most famous stories of all time? Page 23 Charles Dodgson, born a romantic and a rationalist, would have fitted more easily into the world of Voltaire and Goethe than into the one that received him. Page 25 Whether the queen caused the period, or the period creates the queen, she fitted her time perfectly. Of Queen Victoria; page 27 The Dodgson family worshipped the God of Love, who showed his stern face only in the presence of evil. Page 30 Dodgson of course was a meticulous traveler. He packed each article separately, well wrapped in paper to twice its bulk. Page 176 Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Biographers from the United States Category:1984 deaths Category:Articles with no corresponding English Wikipedia article