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I agree with you that the timeline between Crewe's death and the resolution of the novel feels as if it should be longer than not quite two years. I think it's a flaw of the writing, though. I traced the temporal cues in great detail and couldn't make come out any longer. Toward the end of the story, Sara (and others) are ruminating on how soon she'll be old enough to be turned into an actual teacher...and yet there's the inescapable fact that Lavinia is six years older than Sara, and yet still present in the school as a pupil. Every mechanism for adding more time between Crewe's death and the end of the book only makes Lavinia older.
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I agree with you that the timeline between Crewe's death and the resolution of the novel feels as if it should be longer than not quite two years. I think it's a flaw of the writing, though. I traced the temporal cues in great detail and couldn't make come out any longer. Toward the end of the story, Sara (and others) are ruminating on how soon she'll be old enough to be turned into an actual teacher...and yet there's the inescapable fact that Lavinia is six years older than Sara, and yet still present in the school as a pupil. Every mechanism for adding more time between Crewe's death and the end of the book only makes Lavinia older.