Talk:Queen's Academy/@comment-4934571-20151128193920/@comment-3493059-20151129135122

Oooh, thanks. I've been collecting notes on various schools in the series and who attended/taught, and thought it was about time I made something out of them. Besides, I saw your discussion with Klap Trap, and decided this article was looking a little bare. :D

Yeah, I'm not entirely sure about the Meredith children's ages, either. They're twelve, eleven, ten and nine in May 1906. Faith is nineteen in June 1914. There's a small inconsistency -- Carl is ten in July 1907 (RV, chapter 31), and turns eighteen in October 1915. This is not quite right -- he should be only nearly ten, being born in October 1987, but it's close enough that it doesn't matter. Miss Cornelia says that the children 'run just up like the steps of a stair', suggesting that there really is just a year's difference between one and the next. I think the years of birth we have for them (1894, 1895, 1896 and 1897) are OK; they don't seem to contradict the books, anyway. I'll look some more later and see if we can pinpoint dates further, but I don't think so. Queen's years are only educated guesses, anyway -- there are many reasons they could be earlier or later, such as missing school due to illness.

Shirley's age in RoI is obviously not right, as he would only be about three months older than Rilla. However, it's what said in the books, so the best we can do is put the information in articles anyway and add footnotes if necessary, to clarify.