Sorcery and Cecelia: Difference between revisions

* [[Epistolary Novel]]

* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: {{spoiler|Sir Hilary Bedrick}}

* [[French Maid]]: Played with. Walker is French, but she is a "respectable person" and has trouble finding good work because no one believes this about her.

* [[Functional Magic]]

* [[Old Maid]]: Aunts Charlotte and Elizabeth. {{spoiler|Elizabeth later marries Mr. Wrexton.}}

* [[Older Than They Look]]: Miranda Griscomb. {{spoiler|She went to school with Lady Sylvia, who is well into her sixties.}}

* [[Parental Substitute]]: Cecelia et al were raised by a pair of maiden aunts. Aunt Elizabeth seems to have done a much better job than Aunt Charlotte.

* [[Plot Induced Stupidity]]: When Kate and Cecy find out that {{spoiler|some of Sir Hilary's magic got into the chocolate pot Thomas was using to focus his spells, and Sir Hilary is using the connection to drain Thomas}}, they repeatedly wonder why {{spoiler|Thomas}} didn't just smash the thing and make a new one. Cecy makes up for lost time by doing exactly that.

* [[Proper Lady]]: Dorothea Griscomb, to the point the Cecelia thinks the girl a little dull, even if she is very sweet.

* [[Queen Victoria]]: Features in the third book. {{spoiler|Kate takes care of a young Victoria for at least half of the third book.}}

{{quote| Kate "And moreover, Papa always referred to you as ‘that interfering harpy’."}}

* [[Regency England]]

* [[Round Robin]]: Wrede wrote Cecelia's letters. Stevermer wrote Kate's.

* [[Scrapbook Story]]: The first sequel is this, rather than purely epistolary.

* [[Wacky Marriage Proposal]]: Of the laconic variety.

{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Thomas:''' (''to Kate'')}} "I like the idea of marrying you. I think we shall deal extremely well."}}

* [[Wicked Stepmother]]: Miranda to Dorothea. She plans to marry Dorothea to Thomas Schofield as part of her plot against him.