Age of children

I'd like to say first that I think that Georgie Henley and Skandar
Keynes played Lucy and Edmund excellently. Having said that, I do think
that Lucy should have been portrayed a little older in the film. First,
there should have been a year and not four between herself and Edmund,
as there was between the actors. Further, from the evidence in the
text, she seems to me to be about 13. Four earth years pass between The
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Last Battle. In that book,
Jill and Eustace are the only two of the children still in school. If
Lucy left school at 17, that would put her at 13 in The Lion, the Witch
and the Wardrobe. Of course, I'm only taking the age of 17 because it's
the age at which I left school, things may have been different in
England in the 1940s, but would others agree with me?

On 4 Jan 2006 02:41:48 -0800, "William" <williamquill.DeleteThis@gmail.com>
wrote:

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>If Lucy left school at 17, that would put her at 13 in The Lion, the Witch
>and the Wardrobe. Of course, I'm only taking the age of 17 because it's
>the age at which I left school, things may have been different in
>England in the 1940s, but would others agree with me?

Things were different then. Both my parents left school at 14 during
the war years. I can't remember if the ages of the children are ever
specified, but I've always imagined Lucy at about 10 in LWW - and the
Pauline Baynes illustrations seem to confirm this. I reckon the film
got it about right.