jennifer wrote: |
She had an inheritance from her Father after his death, but wasn't allowed control of the bulk of the money until she was 35 - it was managed by her stepmother and her father's lawyer, and her stepmother wouldn't allow her access to it. This was described in Carola. |
Mia wrote: |
35 is a very strange age to inherit isn't it? I presume it is pure EBD plot device but are there any other RL or literary instances of inheritance at 35 and not 21? |
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KB Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:20 am I'm not sure we're ever told exactly what book he died in. He's certainly gone by Carola and, by the sounds of it, has been for quite a while. claire When did her Dad die then? I had some thought of her getting money from her Gran |
Phil wrote: |
When I tried to make sense of the CS timeline, I estimated Mr Cochrane dies round about Lavender laughs or Gay from China. I think he is mentioned in Lavender Laughs, of course I could be imagining things, having been driven bonkers by various EBDisms! |
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Miss Cochrane herself, feeling ready ‘to fight with a feather,’ as her old housekeeper, once Cookie in her father’s household, would have said |
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Apart from the fact that she is an excellent teacher, I know that both Madame and Hilda like to fell that she’s where they can keep an eye on her. She has no home now that Mr Cochrane’s dead; and she’s done some wildly wrong-headed things at intervals all her life. |
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