“All in the waning light she stood,
The star of perfect womanhood.”
Lewis Carroll Three Sunsets and Other Poems
Three Sunsets (1861), st. 1
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)
“She shuttled between impish girlhood and neurotic womanhood.”
— Robert Silverberg, book Thorns
Source: Thorns (1967), Chapter 18, “To the Toy Fair” (p. 85)
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