I just noticed a GLARING date marker in Emily Climbs.  I don't know how I missed it before.

In the spring of her final year of high school, Emily asks Miss Janet Royal to comment on the US presidential election "this fall."  This means that despite all of LMM's efforts to  wrap Emily's Shrewsbury years in a mist of pre-Great War nostalgia, it ( Read more... )

I wrote this big ol' note and then ff.net told me I couldn't post it.  Don't want to be guilty of fanfic sins!  I'm putting it here instead (I doubt anyone cares; I have exactly one reader as far as I can tell).

( On the dates: )