Board Thread:"I Want to Know"/@comment-3493059-20151120063338

I have a few questions that I have wondered about for a while.


 * 1) Where do the books say Persis Ford's age?
 * 2) Where do they say Persis is younger than Kenneth? (most likely scenario, but still ...)
 * 3) Where do they say Rosemary and Ellen's brother was called Bruce, and therefore John and Rosemary's son is named after him?

All this information is written on the wiki, but I can't for the life of me seem to be able to find it in the books. I'm sure it's there, or else it wouldn't be on the wiki (trying to be optimistic here!). All we seem to know is that Persis is about Nan and Di's age, because they are great friends and Anne lets Di stay the night with Persis at least once. That doesn't look like enough info to pinpoint her year of birth as 1895.

On another note, Rosemary says in Chapter 13 of Rainbow Valley: "I never saw anyone make a birch cup so since my little brother used to make them long ago—before he died."

This is interesting since we can infer from a passage in Chapter 21 that this brother actually comes between Rosemary and Ellen (twelve when Ellen is eighteen and Rosemary is eight). Maybe Rosemary thinks of her brother as 'little' because he died young. "Rosemary could not remember her father. He had died when she was only three years old. Ellen, who had been thirteen, remembered him, but with no special tenderness. He had been a stern, reserved man many years older than his fair, pretty wife. Five years later their brother of twelve died also; since his death the two girls had always lived alone with their mother." 