Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 9:09 pm
Actually, Maeve's ages aren't that bad. Using the timeline from the master spreadsheet (which assumes one year between Gillian and Exile, and two between Rosalie and Three Go)
Mollie is pregnant in Jo Returns, the kids presumably being born in the late summer, 1936. The triplets are born in the fall of 1939, making them just over three years younger.
Maeve is seven, almost eight, in Tom, which is fine, the triplets should be just turned four at that point, which matches the books.
She's ten in Peggy, and eleven in Wrong - the triplets are said to be nine. Based on the timeline above, in Wrong Maeve should be 11 turning 12 and the triplets 8, but there are all sorts of age problems between Rosalie and Three Go, with people's ages changing from 1 to 4 years.
She's headgirl in Jane, and her age should be just turning nineteen, which is consistent with someone who is described as a 'dud at lessons'. The triplets are almost 17 (should be almost sixteen), but are in a form older than their years. Both Peggy and Bride become headgirls when they're 16, and leave school at just 17, so Maeve does stay at school longer than her sistes.
So the only real discrepancy is the variation in ages in the gap between Rosalie and Three Go - they end up a year close in age than they should be.
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