Posted by Robert Hill on January 12, 2006 at 19:28:19 from 195.92.168.165 user eclrh.
In Reply to: Re: Ages of main protagonists. posted by Ed Kiser on January 12, 2006 at 18:22:31:
Thank you, Ed, for posting that old compilation, which I don't remember seeing before.
I note that, unless I've misunderstood the table, whoever compiled it concluded that Dot (10.5) was older than Susan (10), despite the fact that in all the books in which they both occur, it's perfectly clear that Susan is one of the four 'elders', whist Dot is one (albeit the oldest) of the four younger ones.
The problem is, of course, that if you start from information that is not completely consistent, and are not careful about which bits of it you use in which places, you can deduce anything at all. I've suggested in my posts in this thread that AR had two quite distinct images of Peggy, an older Peggy in S&A and a younger Peggy in most or all of the later books. The un-named person who compiled this information has taken both of them as simultaneously true, and has deduced the obviously false conclusion that Dot is older than Susan.