Posted by John Wilson on October 30, 2014 at 03:08:21 user hugo.
According to Hugh Shelley Dot was Dick’s “literary younger sister” ; in his 1960 Bodley Head booklet (in the later reprint with Rudyard Kipling & Walter de la Mere). But I had taken Dot to be older than Dick, from stills of them fin the BBC Swallows & Amazons Forever. Also from WH4 Dot thinks that Peggy was probably not much older than herself. In PM21 the prints of Dot’s sandshoes are the same size as Peggys. as she has biggish feet for her size. If Dick was older than Dot he would have been about Peggy’s age.
Dot tends to boss Dick round, telling him to be careful (like an older sister?). At the end of WH when the D’s have got to the North Pole and it is dark with a snowstorn outside she suddenly says that they must return home (through the snowstorm!) now. Rather like nativish Susan in WD saying we must turn around and go back to Felixstowe. Somewhere Titty says that in an emergeny the usual rules don’t apply (according to Daddy?)