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* ExitPursuedByABear: [[spoiler:Nuttenford is eaten by a bear in Virginia.]] The similarity to Shakespeare is noted.
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* POVSequel: ''The Ironmonger's Tale'', which tells the story from Josiah's [=PoV=], and ''Mistress in her Household'', from Eliza's.
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* POVSequel: ''The Ironmonger's Ironmaster's Tale'', which tells the story from Josiah's [=PoV=], and ''Mistress in her Household'', from Eliza's.
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* POVSequel: ''The Ironmonger's Tale'', which tells the story from Josiah's [=PoV=], and ''Mistress in her Household'', from Eliza's.
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* PreMortemOneLiner: [[spoiler:In her final confrontation with Osgood Clorinda draws her pistol and declares "Silence to the death!". Osgood assumes she's threatening suicide and mocks her because he thinks she won't go through with it. Clorinda declares "Not my death" and shoots him.]]
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* PerspectiveFlip: The ''The Ironmonger's Tale'' blog chapters, which tell the story from Josiah's [=PoV=].
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* PerspectiveFlip: The ''The Ironmonger's Tale'' blog chapters, Tale'', which tell tells the story from Josiah's [=PoV=].[=PoV=], and ''Mistress in her Household'', from Eliza's.
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* LetOffByTheDetective: [[spoiler:Clorinda actively helps cover up Mrs. Darton Kendall's murder of her spendthrift, abusive and otherwise extremely unpleasant husband. Sandy eventually agrees.]]
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* LetOffByTheDetective: LetOffByTheDetective:
** [[spoiler:Clorinda actively helps cover up Mrs. Darton Kendall's murder of her spendthrift, abusive and otherwise extremely unpleasant husband. Sandy eventually agrees.]]
** [[spoiler:Johnson actively helps Clorinda dispose of Osgood's body after she shoots him in cold blood.]]
** [[spoiler:Clorinda actively helps cover up Mrs. Darton Kendall's murder of her spendthrift, abusive and otherwise extremely unpleasant husband. Sandy eventually agrees.]]
** [[spoiler:Johnson actively helps Clorinda dispose of Osgood's body after she shoots him in cold blood.]]
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* GainingTheWillToKill: [[spoiler:After Osgood starts blackmailing her, Clorinda takes several chapters to get to the point where she can kill him.]]
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* MamaBear: [[spoiler:Clorinda kills Osgood primarily out of rage that he threatened to ruin her daughter's life by exposing her true parantage.]]
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* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler:Or in this case, shoot the blackmailing secret policeman and sell his corpse for surgical research.]]
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* TheseHandsHaveKilled: [[spoiler:Averted when Clorinda is pleasantly surprised by her lack of this reaction after killing Osgood.]]
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* ShoutOutToShakespeare: Viola and Sebastian Knowles are implied to be named after the young twin brother and sister in ''Theatre/TwelfthNight''.
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* StateSec: Ranulph Osgood, who sees the Raxdell House set as dangerous political conspirators and tries to blackmail Clorinda into informing on them.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: The reaction of everyone else present when Mrs. Darton Kendall, a notorious spreader of malicious gossip, reacts angrily to the Dreadful Crocodile implying that Clorinda is a lesbian.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: The reaction of everyone else present when Mrs. Darton Kendall, a notorious spreader of malicious gossip, reacts angrily to the Dreadful Dreadfull Crocodile implying that Clorinda is a lesbian.
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* EmphasiseEVERYTHING: Clorinda ''really'' likes her ''italics''.
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* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Happens in a lengthy and complicated way between the Marquess of Offgrange and Lady Anna Merritt. [[spoiler:They can't resist meeting in secret while they're engaged, which leads to a [[TwoPersonLoveTriangle Two Person Love ''Quadrangle'']] in which they're accused of cheating on each other with each other.]]
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* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Happens in a lengthy and complicated way between the Marquess of Offgrange and Lady Anna Merritt. [[spoiler:They can't resist meeting in secret while they're engaged, which leads to a [[TwoPersonLoveTriangle Two Person Love ''Quadrangle'']] Love]] '''Quadrangle''' in which they're accused of cheating on each other with each other.]]
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* DefeatMeansRespect: The Dreadful Crocodile hires Mrs. Darton Kendall as her paid companion after Mrs. Kendall stands up to her in public.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Sir Barton Wallace's unpleasant mother is known only as the Dreadful Crocodile.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Sir Barton Wallace's unpleasant mother is known only as the Dreadful Crocodile.Dreadfull Crocodile.
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Happens in a lengthy and complicated way between the Marquess of Offgrange and Lady Anna Merritt. [[spoiler:They can't resist meeting in secret while they're engaged, which leads to a [[TwoPersonLoveTriangle Two Person Love ''Quadrangle'']] in which they're accused of cheating on each other with each other.]]
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Happens in a lengthy and complicated way between the Marquess of Offgrange and Lady Anna Merritt. [[spoiler:They can't resist meeting in secret while they're engaged, which leads to a [[TwoPersonLoveTriangle Two Person Love ''Quadrangle'']] in which they're accused of cheating on each other with each other.]]
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* PrecociousCrush:
** Bess Ferraby has a brief crush on her father's chief engineer Mr. Dalgliesh, which gets crushed when he makes his growing relationship with her governess obvious in front of her.
** Teenage Geoffrey Merritt initially [[BiTheWay can't decide]] whether to crush on Clorinda or Sandy.
** Bess Ferraby has a brief crush on her father's chief engineer Mr. Dalgliesh, which gets crushed when he makes his growing relationship with her governess obvious in front of her.
** Teenage Geoffrey Merritt initially [[BiTheWay can't decide]] whether to crush on Clorinda or Sandy.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: Abigail Simpson is fat but a very good dancer and horse rider.
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* MoralGuardians: Lord Demington makes his relatives very unhappy for a while with his extreme puritanism ([[spoiler:due to guilt and paranoia over having caught crab lice from a courtesan during his Grand Tour]]) until Clorinda persuades him to calm down.
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* PlagiarismInFiction: The incompetent poet Walter Yewall steals a poem from Abigail Simpson [[spoiler:and first achieved success by plagiarising unpublished poems written by a dead friend.]]
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* DefeatMeansRespect: The Dreadful Crocodile hires Mrs. Darton Kendall as her paid companion after Mrs. Kendall stands up to her in public.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: The reaction of everyone else present when Mrs. Darton Kendall, a notorious spreader of malicious gossip, reacts angrily to the Dreadful Crocodile implying that Clorinda is a lesbian.
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* LetOffByTheDetective: [[spoiler:Clorinda actively helps cover up Mrs. Darton Kendall's murder of her spendthrift, abusive and otherwise extremely unpleasant husband. Sandy eventually agrees.]]
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Sir Barton Wallace's unpleasant mother is known only as the Dreadful Crocodile.
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* IWasQuiteALooker: [[spoiler:Abby is so changed by the hardships she's been through when she returns from Australia that hardly anybody recognises her, which she's happy about.]]
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* FriendOnTheForce: The Bow Street Runner Matt Johnson, to both Clorinda and Sandy.
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* HisHeartWillGoOn: [[spoiler:Sandy ends up in a relationship with Maurice after Gervase's death in a road accident.]]
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Averted - -- despite the concern for cultural accuracy no real historical figures appear outside hearsay and allusion.allusion.
* HomoeroticDream: Matt Johnson confesses to having them about Sandy.
* HomoeroticDream: Matt Johnson confesses to having them about Sandy.
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* [[spoiler:Admiral Knighton and Lady Jane, as he needs somebody to manage the land that he's inherited and she needs a beard.]]
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* {{Dominatrix}}: Mrs. O'Callaghan's speciality in ''special pleasures''.
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* [[spoiler:Clorinda marries the gay and dying Marquess of Bexbury, mostly to spite his heir, her old enemy Gorston, and to ensure that his unentailed assets will be disposed of as he wants them to be.]]]]
* [[spoiler:Admiral Knighton and Lady Jane, as he needs somebody to manage the land that he's inherited and she needs a beard.]]
* MustHaveCaffeine: A RunningGag involves Sandy's capacity for coffee-drinking, especially in the morning.
* [[spoiler:Clorinda marries the gay and dying Marquess of Bexbury, mostly to spite his heir, her old enemy Gorston, and to ensure that his unentailed assets will be disposed of as he wants them to be.
* [[spoiler:Admiral Knighton and Lady Jane, as he needs somebody to manage the land that he's inherited and she needs a beard.]]
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* TheConsigliere: Maurice plays this role to his boyhood friend, the gangster Nat Barron.
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''The Comfortable Courtesan'' is a WebSerialNovel by L A Hall, initially published as a Dreamwidth blog from 2015-7 (regular daily chapters ended then, a number of side stories and future stories have been posted irregularly since), and then from 2017 on as a series of [[https://www.clorinda.org/ ebooks and hard-copy collections]]. It is loosely within the [[RegencyEngland Regency Romance]] subgenre, although the author, a professional historian and a feminist, is interested in both historical accuracy and the depiction of less mainstream sexual orientations and relationship styles than was common until the 2010s in genre romance.
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''The Comfortable Courtesan'' is a WebSerialNovel by L A Hall, initially published as a Dreamwidth blog from in 2015-7 (regular daily chapters ended then, a number of side stories and future stories have been posted irregularly since), and then from 2017 on as a series of [[https://www.clorinda.org/ ebooks and hard-copy collections]]. It is loosely within the [[RegencyEngland Regency Romance]] subgenre, although the author, a professional historian and a feminist, is interested in both historical accuracy and the depiction of less mainstream sexual orientations and relationship styles than was common until the 2010s in genre romance.
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* DeadlyDistantFinale: [[spoiler:Clorinda dies in 1872, at advanced age, just after reading the final installment of ''Literature/{{Middlemarch}}''.
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* DeadlyDistantFinale: [[spoiler:Clorinda dies in 1872, at advanced age, just after reading the final installment of ''Literature/{{Middlemarch}}''.
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* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:The later Marquess of Bexbury]] goes completely insane when his attempted bigamy is publicly exposed.]]
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* ShotgunWedding: Played with in what we hear of Josiah and Eliza's courtship - in their case it was her father who was reluctant to allow the marriage to happen and the pre-marital pregnancy was deliberate on their parts to force him to consent.
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* HighClassCallGirl: Clorinda's profession and that of some of her friends. Later on, we also get the unnamed "club" for upper-class gay men, which employs male versions.
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* IronicNickname: After Clorinda and Eliza make friends with each other, they refer to Josiah as "the Grand Turk", in mockery of the assumption that any man who consensually has relationships with more than one woman at once must be some kind of barbaric domestic tyrant.
