I think Beatrice is the mother of...

[RockSunner]

Why not Fernald and Fiona? If their mother "did not die in a manatee accident" perhaps she faked the accident and died later in a fire.

[SnicketFires]

I'm such a cliché. I voted the mother of the Baudelaires.

But that theory of Beatrice being Mr. Baudelaire's sister is starting to hold water with me.

[Tay Sachs]

I like to think of her as dying a blossoming flower, untainted by childbirth and age.

[Dante]

RockSunner said:

Why not Fernald and Fiona? If their mother "did not die in a manatee accident" perhaps she faked the accident and died later in a fire.

Hmm... I'm sure I had a piece of evidence that she couldn't be, but I can't remember it now.

I don't like to think she is, because Widdershins seems so... flawed. Plus that would make two marriages to people who weren't Lemony - Fernald and Fiona's original father, and after he moved away, Widdershins.

[QuagmireFan]

NOBODY.

[Who wants to know?]

C'mon! It the mom there is sooooooooooo much evidence!!!!!!!!!

[RockSunner]

I thought everyone had stopped believing in the Beatrice-as-Baud-mom theory because of the list in TGG pp. 310-311, about Captain Widdershins showing the newpaper article to the Baudelaire parents AND to the woman Lemony loves. How do those who still hold the Beatrice theory explain this?

[Libitina]

If Beatrice had children, wouldn't Lemony Snicket be researching them rather than the Baudelaires? Even if he wasn't researching Beatrice's children, I'm sure he would have mentioned them at some point in the books, not necessarily by name. Snicket would have at least acknowleged their existence.

[RockSunner]

OrangeyTwixet said:

If Beatrice had children, wouldn't Lemony Snicket be researching them rather than the Baudelaires? Even if he wasn't researching Beatrice's children, I'm sure he would have mentioned them at some point in the books, not necessarily by name. Snicket would have at least acknowleged their existence.

I don't know if any conclusions can be drawn about what the books have and have not mentioned, especially since the series isn't finished. Fernald was not revealed as the stepson of Captain Widdershins until TGG. Might be also be revealed as the son of Beatrice in the next book? He has appeared in almost every book so far.

[Libitina]

RockSunner said:

Fernald was not revealed as the stepson of Captain Widdershins until TGG.

Captain Widdershinns was not revealed at all until TGG, so it wouldn't have made sense to say whose stepson he is. However, you could be correct; the next book will most likely reveal new characters, any of whom could be Beatrice's children.