Your question to me was
“Where was it said that the book was written before Ann was born?”
I’d like to know the answer to that question too.
Where was it said that the book was written before Ann was born?
Id like to know the answer to that question too.
My comment was that the incident with a girl named Ann happened before Stanley Ann was born. I may have been wrong about that, but whatever happened to the poor unfortunate Ann, it happened during FMD’s first marriage, and the dates for his second marriage are above some place. So the incident with a girl named Ann (if it happened at all which I hope not), happened either before Stanley Ann was born, or when she was a small child.
No one made a comment about the date of when the book was written. Basically, there is not only no evidence that the “Ann” in the book could have been Stanley Ann, it is actually impossible to have been her, as the dates are entirely wrong (for starters).