This is so interesting! (I've been ghosting around on your blog, I confess, ever since reading and loving both Alpennia novels; I hope you don't mind that I've added you)
I read A Little Princess over and over again as a child, and I always assumed at least several years between the disastrous birthday and the arrival of Mr. Carrisford in London. It's very interesting to see it all mapped out this way.
One possible way to get a bit more time into Mr. Carrisford's two years might be to assume that some unspecified amount of time -- perhaps even several months or more -- elapsed between Mr Crew's ruin, illness, and death and the news of it reaching Mrs. Minchin's. Does she receive the news as a letter, I think? Especially if he died in destitution and his affairs were in disarray, it might plausibly have been some time until someone notified Miss Minchin, especially since apparently no one among his associates knew anything about where his daughter was. Or possibly it wasn't until Miss Minchin wrote to find out why she hadn't been paid on time that someone wrote back to inform her of his death.
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Date: 2016-05-16 07:52 pm (UTC)I read A Little Princess over and over again as a child, and I always assumed at least several years between the disastrous birthday and the arrival of Mr. Carrisford in London. It's very interesting to see it all mapped out this way.
One possible way to get a bit more time into Mr. Carrisford's two years might be to assume that some unspecified amount of time -- perhaps even several months or more -- elapsed between Mr Crew's ruin, illness, and death and the news of it reaching Mrs. Minchin's. Does she receive the news as a letter, I think? Especially if he died in destitution and his affairs were in disarray, it might plausibly have been some time until someone notified Miss Minchin, especially since apparently no one among his associates knew anything about where his daughter was. Or possibly it wasn't until Miss Minchin wrote to find out why she hadn't been paid on time that someone wrote back to inform her of his death.