Posted by Alan Hakim on July 31, 2010 at 09:20:10 user awhakim.
In Reply to: Re: Three questions posted by Ross Cossar on July 31, 2010 at 04:24:11:
I seem to remember that somebody, some time in the last two or three years, posted on this board some notes that AR himself made about characters' ages.
That somebody was me, quoting a Chronology written by AR "some years later" after the publication of SA, and published in Amazon Publications' The best of Childhood. (A few copies still on sale at the TARS Stall.)
CHRONOLOGY
SA Summer 1930
Roger 7, Titty 9, Susan 11, Peggy 11, John 12, Nancy 12
SD 1931
WH 1931-2
CC Easter 1932
PP Summer hols 1932 First two weeks
WD Summer hols 1932 Fourth week
SW Summer hols 1932 End
BS Summer hols End September
PM First fortnight of Summer hols 1933
R 10, T12, S 14, J 15, D[Dorothea?] 13, D 12, N 15, P 14
Pete 10, Bill 11, Joe 12
Any other dates on Tarboard are speculation.
I also have a photocopy of another item in AR's hand giving the plot outlines of the books, and bearing out the same timescale. Also, unless I have misread his handwriting, it says explicitly "Feb 10 1932 at the North Pole".