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Pevensie siblings

Also known as four Pevensies, Pevensies, four children

Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, the four children who enter Narnia through the wardrobe and reign through its Golden Age.

This encyclopedia follows the whole story. Plot details from all seven chronicles may appear below.

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In the chronicles

These links are generated from exact-name appearances in the supplied novels. Each opens the cited paragraph in the local reader.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe4 cited passages⌄

Chapter I · paragraph 1Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they w…Open passage →
Chapter VI · paragraph 11And now there was no mistaking it and all four children stood blinking in the daylight of a winter day. Behind them were coats hanging on pegs, in front of them were s…Open passage →
Chapter VI · paragraph 52… they had been saying. Almost without noticing that they had done so, the four children went a step or two nearer to it. At this the Robin flew away again to the next tree and once more looked at the…Open passage →
Chapter XVII · paragraph 16That evening after tea the four children all managed to get down to the beach again and get their shoes and stockings off and feel the sand between thei…Open passage →

Prince Caspian5 cited passages⌄

Chapter I · paragraph 1Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, and it has been told in another book called The Lion, the Witch…Open passage →
Chapter I · paragraph 12…age, the seat, the platform, and the station had completely vanished. The four children, holding hands and panting, found themselves standing in a woody place--such a woody place that branches were s…Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 36The four children and the Dwarf went down to the water's edge, pushed off the boat with some difficulty, and scrambled aboard. Th…Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 1…s you have realised, it was he who had been telling all this story to the four children, sitting on the grass in the ruined hall of Cair Paravel)--"and so I put a crust or two in my pocket, left behi…Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 16"I suppose you are the four children out of the old stories," said Trumpkin. "And I'm very glad to meet you of course. And it's very interesting, no…Open passage →

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader7 cited passages⌄

Chapter I · paragraph 3Eustace Clarence disliked his cousins the four Pevensies, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. But he was quite glad when he heard that Edmund and Lucy were coming to stay. F…Open passage →
Chapter I · paragraph 4…nd the holidays being coached by old Professor Kirke in whose house these four children had had wonderful adventures long ago in the war years. If he had still been in that house he would have had th…Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 18The King, the Mouse, the two Pevensies, and Eustace all got into the boat and were pulled to the beach of Felimath. When the boat had left them and wa…Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 28… of being left behind grew stronger. If he had understood Caspian and the Pevensies at all he would have known, of course, that there was not the least chance of their doing any such thing. But h…Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 33…y had finished watering, the rain was over and Caspian, with Eustace, the Pevensies, and Reepicheep, decided to walk up to the top of the hill and see what could be seen. It was a stiffish climb …Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 74… the world from which my friends come" (here he nodded at Eustace and the Pevensies) "they have a story of a prince or a king coming to a castle where all the people lay in an enchanted sleep. In…Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 1Reepicheep was the only person on board besides Drinian and the two Pevensies who had noticed the Sea People. He had dived in at once when he saw the Sea King shaking his spear, for he rega…Open passage →

The Silver Chair1 cited passage⌄

Chapter III · paragraph 74…be any number of years in Narnia while we're having one year at home. The Pevensies explained it all to me, but, like a fool, I forgot about it. And now apparently it's been about seventy years--…Open passage →

The Last Battle2 cited passages⌄

Chapter IV · paragraph 32…(for he had always been good at history when he was a boy) how those same four children who had helped Caspian had been in Narnia over a thousand years before; and it was then that they had defeated …Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 29"Yes," said Jill. "But we don't think he can use them. When the two other Pevensies--King Edmund and Queen Lucy--were last here, Aslan said they would never come to Narnia again. And he said some…Open passage →

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