Alison H wrote: |
Everyone seems to want to be Joey's best friend. Sorry, I am bored at work so seem to have written a whole essay there . |
CBW wrote: |
Was it not that these 4 were all the same age?
Its been a while since I read the early books so I can't totally remember who came when but I thought for a while these 4 were the only ones in their age group so they rather fell together. |
Alison H wrote: |
Bruno and Andre were both away in the army during Rescue.
I don't know where Eugen was, though ... his mother was American so possibly he'd have had dual nationality and could've gone into an American regiment (don't know enough about it to know whether or not that's true), but I don't think we're ever told what he does during the War. Maybe as an aristocrat with knowledge of Austrian affairs he got a high-ranking job in intelligence! Or maybe he was regarded as too high-risk to have a military job. |
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Bruno is away from me, serving in India; André is in the Belgian Congo, and Eugen is hard at it in Italy. |
jennifer wrote: |
Interestingly, Joey doesn't name any of her children, including middle names, after any of her friends, and Simone names her daughter after Mlle Lepattre and Madge, not Joey. |
JS wrote: |
Perhaps this is heresy but I was trying to think of Joey and co in terms of the Sex and the City women. |
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Interestingly, Joey doesn't name any of her children, including middle names, after any of her friends, and Simone names her daughter after Mlle Lepattre and Madge, not Joey. |
emily 401 wrote: |
She doesn't name any after the 'quartet', but she names the triplets after members of staff I think, 'Con' is Constance for Miss Stewart, 'Len' is Hellena for Miss Wilson, and 'Margot' is Margaret after Daisy and Primuala Venable's mother. |
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IIRC it was Frieda's youngest whom Joey didn't want named after her, so she ended up being Carlotta instead. |
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It was Simone as well, so Joe snubbed at least two of her closest friends. Simone's youngest (I think) daughter ended up being Roseline because Jo 'refused to have another baby named after her' (Future) Or so she told Irma whose name, incidentally, appears to have switched from Ancockzy back to von Rothenfels even though the latter was her maiden name! |
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Irma Ancockzy and Irma von Rothfenels were 2 different people in Tyrol, AFAIK.
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Róisín wrote: |
Irma Ancockzy and Irma von Rothfenels were 2 different people in Tyrol, AFAIK. |
Alison H wrote: |
We'll never know, I suppose ... . One of those mysteries, along with the real identity of Wanda von Eschenau II ... who would have been related to the original von Rothenfels family as Paula and Irma were Wanda and Marie's cousins, now that I come to think about it. Maybe they were just a very mysterious family! |
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I always figured Wanda II (and Carlotta) were children of Wanda and Marie's younger brother Wolfram, as Wanda and Marie are definitely mentioned as her aunts.
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Lesley wrote: |
I wondered if the reason they were chosen was because EBD needed 3 who were Catholic - but can't understsnd why she couldn't have chosen Simone, Marie and Frieda - isn't it normally the case that Godparents are chosen from your own generation? - choosing three of your teachers seems bizarre - I can just about see Nell Wilson - with their shared ordeal during Exile, but otherwise? |
Sunglass wrote: |
Am I right in thinking that in the past people (at least Catholics, I have no idea how it might work in other faiths) tended to choose older people as godparents, rather than people of their own age? (My grandparents were my godparents, which would be very unusual now.) |
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