Characters
The book's protagonists are the seven Woolcot children, from oldest to youngest:
- Meg (real name Meg), 16, naive, romantic sixteen-year-old eldest sister and sometime surrogate mother to the younger children.
- Pip (real name Philip), 14, eldest brother, handsome, intelligent but badly-behaved.
- Judy (real name Helen), 13, imaginative and lively, often leads the others into mischief and Pip's partner in crime.
- Nell (real name Elinor), 10, beautiful and slightly wistful child.
- Bunty (real name John), 6, described as 'fat and very lazy'.
- Baby (real name Winifred), 4, is the most well behaved out of the lot, was only a baby when her mother died.
- 'The General' (real name Francis Rupert Burnand) - the baby and the only natural child of Esther, who is stepmother to the other children.
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