One of the characters is a time traveller
The season one box set comes with a book dated "xx, June, 1896." It features newspaper articles centered around Emma and William's romance.This book also contains pictures dated "2004".
Clearly, whoever wrote that book either is a time traveler or got the pictures from one; and that author was too conscientious a researcher to falsify the dates.
- Well, that would explain that anachronistic biplane model in Chapter 2.
Aurelia and Richard had more than five children
There is a large age gap between Arthur and Vivian (Arthur is finishing school and would be around 17 and Vivian is about 8-9). It is possible Aurelia was pregnant a few times in between and sadly miscarried, as was (and is still) very common. This may have been part of what led to her health collapsing. When their fourth child was born, they decided to name her Vivian, which means “life”
