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* LoveAtFirstSight: Elissa is quite taken with a man with no money, but refuses to consider.

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* LoveAtFirstSight: Elissa is quite taken with a man with no money, but refuses to consider.consider it.



* MagicMirror: Portals are a big thing for the Guardian Order and some of them are mirrors. They are used to reach the main hall and function as proof of membership. Kat finds her mother's [[spoiler: and losses it saving her brother]].

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* MagicMirror: Portals are a big thing for the Guardian Order and some of them are mirrors. They are used to reach the main hall and function as proof of membership. Kat finds her mother's [[spoiler: and losses loses it saving her brother]].
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* MagicMirror: Golden mirrors are a big thing for the Guardian Order. They are used to reach the main hall and function as proof of membership. Kat finds her mother's [[spoiler: and losses it saving her brother]].

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* MagicMirror: Golden mirrors Portals are a big thing for the Guardian Order.Order and some of them are mirrors. They are used to reach the main hall and function as proof of membership. Kat finds her mother's [[spoiler: and losses it saving her brother]].
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* AntiMagic: Kat's abilities for this are spontaneous.
* ArrangedMarriage: One is contemplated for Elissa
* {{Blackmail}}: Kat tries this on Angeline.
* BlueBlood: The Guardians. And, of course, all of society
* ClingyMacGuffin: the mirror

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* AntiMagic: One of Kat's Guardian abilities for this are spontaneous.
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is breaking the spells of others, such as witches.
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ArrangedMarriage: One is contemplated for Elissa
* %%%* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler: At the end of ''Renegade Magic'', Kat tries this on Angeline.
uses Lady Forthington's inaction against the BigBad's plot to coerce her into recanting her accusation against Angeline and instead to support her marriage to Fredick.]]
* BlueBlood: The Guardians. And, Guardians are a hereditary group of mages. They expel anyone who does anything as improper as merchant work.
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course, all of society
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"Society" is filled up of the well-bred, well feed etc. who would be scandalized to learn that their fellow blue bloods are mages.
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ClingyMacGuffin: the mirror



* DancesAndBalls: The climax of ''A Most Improper Magic'' starts at one
* DeathByChildbirth: Kat's mother
* DefiledForever: If Viscount Scarwood ruins you. . . .

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* %%%* DancesAndBalls: The climax of ''A Most Improper Magic'' starts at one
* DeathByChildbirth: Kat's mother
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mother died ten days after her birth.
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DefiledForever: If Viscount Scarwood ruins you. . . .



* DuelToTheDeath: Well, a duel. Not to the death.
* AFateWorseThanDeath: invoked in a joke
* GirlInTheTower: What Sir Neville did to his first wife.
* GreenEyedMonster: Attributed to Sir Neville
* TheHighwayman: Haunts the roads, and requires them to have armed guards
* HumanSacrifice: To Sulis Minerva

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* %%%* DuelToTheDeath: Well, a duel. Not to the death.
* %%%* AFateWorseThanDeath: invoked in a joke
* %%%* GirlInTheTower: What Sir Neville did to his first wife.
* %%%%* GreenEyedMonster: Attributed to Sir Neville
* TheHighwayman: Haunts Miscreants haunt the roads, and this requires them others to have armed guards
guards.
* HumanSacrifice: To [[spoiler: Charles's Oxford buddies try to sacrifice him to Sulis MinervaMinerva for power.]]



* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Elissa. She reads too many Gothics, and tries to make the sacrifice even when it's foolish.
* IWillWaitForYou: Angeline, in front of the mother with the veto

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* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Elissa. She Elissa reads too many Gothics, and tries to make the sacrifice even when it's foolish.
* %%%* IWillWaitForYou: Angeline, in front of the mother with the veto



* LoveSpell: Angeline casts one.
* LoveTriangle: In the BackStory, as Kat realizes
* MacGuffin: The will, in ''Improper Magic''
* MagicMirror: Kat finds her mother's.
* MoreHeroThanThou: Mr. Collingwood and Elissa

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* %%%* LoveSpell: Angeline casts one.
* LoveTriangle: In the BackStory, as Kat realizes
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realizes that her mother and father were in one with Lady Fotherington, who was her mother's nemesis.
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MacGuffin: The will, in ''Improper Magic''
* MagicMirror: Golden mirrors are a big thing for the Guardian Order. They are used to reach the main hall and function as proof of membership. Kat finds her mother's.
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mother's [[spoiler: and losses it saving her brother]].
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MoreHeroThanThou: Mr. Collingwood and Elissa



* OldMaid: Stepmama was on the verge of this when she married.
* ParentalMarriageVeto: Mrs. Carlyle waves it about with great vigor.
* ThePromise: Kat vows to restore her mother's mirror
* PromotionToParent: Kat's sisters
* RansackedRoom: A burglar ransacks the house.

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* OldMaid: Stepmama was on the verge of this when she married.
married Papa, and now she has three step-daughters.
* ParentalMarriageVeto: Mrs. Carlyle waves it about with great vigor.
vigor to prevent Angeline and Fredrick's marriage, and is ''still'' trying to break it up ''four days before the ceremony''.
* ThePromise: Kat vows to restore her mother's mirror
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mirror.
*ProperLady: Elissa is a paragon of manners and grace, which also makes her (in Kat's own words) the prissiest person Kat's ever known.
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PromotionToParent: Kat's sisters
* %%%%* RansackedRoom: A burglar ransacks the house.



* SpellBook: Their mother's books, for both Kat and Angeline.
* SweetPollyOliver: Kat's first attempt to save Elissa from the arranged marriage

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* SpellBook: Their mother's books, for books contain spells, and both Kat and Angeline.
Angeline use them (Guardian magic and witchcraft, respectively).
* SweetPollyOliver: Kat's first attempt to save Elissa from the arranged marriagemarriage involved pretending to be a boy.



* TearsOfRemorse: In the BackStory, their mother, after she revealed her magic.
* ThickerThanWater: Elissa's motive to submit to an arranged marriage.
* UnableToSupportAWife: Mr. Collingwood; Elissa can not marry him.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Elissa thinks she's the heroine of a Gothic

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* %%%* TearsOfRemorse: In the BackStory, their mother, after she revealed her magic.
* %%%* ThickerThanWater: Elissa's motive to submit to an arranged marriage.
* %%%* UnableToSupportAWife: Mr. Collingwood; Elissa can not marry him.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Elissa thinks she's the heroine of a GothicGothic. Interestingly, her husband is described as looking ''exactly'' like a stereotypical Gothic villain but also as meek and affectionate so as to be the opposite.

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* AFateWorseThanDeath: invoked in a joke


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* ''A Reckless Magick'' or ''Stolen Magic''

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* ''A Reckless Magick'' or ''Stolen Magic'' Magic''



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* DispelMagic: In ''A Most Improper Magick'', Kat finds she can spontaneously break spells by verbally denying them.
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* HumanSacrifice: To Sulis Minerva


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* LoveTriangle: In the BackStory, as Kat realizes


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* SinsOfOurFathers: Kat is blamed for her mother's misdeeds
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* DefiledForever: If Viscount Scarwood ruins you. . . .
* DuelToTheDeath: Well, a duel. Not to the death.


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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Viscount ''Scarwood''.
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* BlueBlood: The Guardians. And, of course, all of society


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* ThePromise: Kat vows to restore her mother's mirror
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* IWillWaitForYou: Angeline, in front of the mother with the veto
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* ParentalMarriageVeto: Mrs. Carlyle waves it about with great vigor.


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* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: In the opening of ''Tangle''. While the reason would have been legitimate -- the man is underage and can not marry without parental permission -- it is not, in fact, his wedding.
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* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Elissa. She reads too many Gothics, and tries to make the sacrifice even when it's foolish.


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* MoreHeroThanThou: Mr. Collingwood and Elissa
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* MacGuffin: The will, in ''Improper Magic''
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* DancesAndBalls: The climax of ''A Most Improper Magic'' starts at one


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* TalkAboutTheWeather: Angeline complains about unintelligible conversation; must they start to talk about the weather?
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* CrushBlush: Elissa, when Sir Neville is flattering


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* LoveAtFirstSight: Elissa is quite taken with a man with no money, but refuses to consider.
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* TheHighwayman: Haunts the roads, and requires them to have armed guards

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* ChristmasCake: Stepmama


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* OldMaid: Stepmama was on the verge of this when she married.
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* AFateWorseThanDeath: invoked in a joke
* AntiMagic: Kat's abilities for this are spontaneous.


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* ChristmasCake: Stepmama


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* RansackedRoom: A burglar ransacks the house.
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* ClingyMacGuffin: the mirror
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* GirlInTheTower: What Sir Neville did to his first wife.
* GreenEyedMonster: Attributed to Sir Neville


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* MagicMirror: Kat finds her mother's.
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* LoveSpell: Angeline casts one.


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* ThickerThanWater: Elissa's motive to submit to an arranged marriage.
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* {{Blackmail}}: Kat tries this on Angeline.
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* TearsOfRemorse: In the BackStory, their mother, after she revealed her magic.
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* ParentalSubstitute: Kat's sisters

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* ParentalSubstitute: PromotionToParent: Kat's sisters

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''Kat, Incorrigible'' is a series of children's books by Creator/StephanieBurgis about Kat's adventures in an alternate Regency, with magic, revolving about her sister's marriages and her own discoveries of magical abilities.

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''Kat, Incorrigible'' is a series of children's books by Creator/StephanieBurgis about Kat's adventures in an alternate Regency, with magic, revolving about her sister's sisters' marriages and her own discoveries of magical abilities.


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* DeathByChildbirth: Kat's mother


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* ParentalSubstitute: Kat's sisters
* SpellBook: Their mother's books, for both Kat and Angeline.
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The books are:
* ''A Most Improper Magick'' or ''Kat, Incorrigible''
* ''A Tangle of Magicks'' or ''Renegade Magic''
* ''A Reckless Magick'' or ''Stolen Magic''
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''Kat, Incorrigible'' is a series of children's books by Creator/StephanieBurgis about Kat's adventures in an alternate Regency, with magic, revolving about her sister's marriages and her own discoveries of magical abilities.

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* ArrangedMarriage: One is contemplated for Elissa
* ImportantHaircut: Kat does it as part of her SweetPollyOliver attempt
* SweetPollyOliver: Kat's first attempt to save Elissa from the arranged marriage
* UnableToSupportAWife: Mr. Collingwood; Elissa can not marry him.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Elissa thinks she's the heroine of a Gothic
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