text: Biographers Derek Hudson and Roger Lancelyn Green (Green also having edited Dodgson's diaries and papers) stop short of identifying Dodgson as a paedophile, but concur that he had a passion for small female children and next to no interest in the adult world; in the last ten years several other writers and scholars have challenged the evidentiary basis for Cohen's and others' speculations regarding this interest of Dodgson.