History Literature / TheFinishingSchoolSeries

** Sidheag Maccon is a major character in the first two books, and her and Captain Niall's departure from the series are directly connected to the off-page events, first mentioned in ''Literature/TheParasolProtectorate'', regarding how Conall Maccon came to London and took over the Woolsey Pack.
** Genevieve "Vieve" Lefoux and her aunt Beatrice play major roles.
** At the end, Sophronia becomes Alexia Tarabotti's governess as her latest assignment.

** Those who've read the second book of ''Literature/TheParasolProtectorate'' and recognize the names of Sidheag and Captain Niall will not be surprised by the off-page events involving Lord Maccon that lead to their departure from the series in ''Curtsies & Conspiracies''.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the first book, when Professor Braithewope (a vampire) wants to know what Sophronia was thinking during their first class, she tells him she was wondering about him and his tether to the airship. She further muses out loud, wondering what would happen to him if he fell off the airship and outside the range of his tether and whether or not he will die. [[spoiler:In book two, he DOES fall out of the airship from an extreme height, his tether snaps, and the combination of the fall and snap leaves him near-dead. Though he does survive, the snap left him completely insane, and he never recovers. And it's at least partially Sophronia's fault.]]

* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:Madame Geraldine is not at all the oblivious woman she seems to be. Far from it.]]

* RewatchBonus: [[spoiler:The series reads ''very'' differently once you know that Mademoiselle Geraldine knows about the school's true nature and is a full intelligencer, and that Agatha has been an active agent in service to Lord Ackeldama since before she arrived at the school.]]

** [[spoiler:Agatha is in service to Lord Ackeldama, and has been since the beginning.]]

* GreenEyes: Sophronia has them.

* AcademyOfAdventure: Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing School. It's even located in an airship.
* AlliterativeTitle: Every book in the series.

** Sidheag Maccon is a major character in the first two books, and her and Captain Niall's departure from the series are directly connected to the offscreen events, first mentioned in ''Literature/TheParasolProtectorate'', regarding how Conall Maccon came to London and took over the Woolsey Pack.

* EmergencyTransformation: With vampires and werewolves integrated into society in this world, it's bound to happen eventually. [[spoiler: Such as to Soap, when nearly killed in a fight. The nearby werewolf isn't incined to attempt changing a low-born, untrained boy into a werewolf, but Sophronia offers her services as a spy/assassin as soon as she finishes school in return.]]

* ForegoneConclusion: Tied in with LuddWasRight, in ''The Parasol Protectorate'', household mechanicals are nowhere to be seen, but in this prequel they're very common. So, why the change?

* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: The Mademoiselle Geraldine's girls are far more useful in a a conflict than the Bunson boys. The girls are specifically taught to finish just about anyone and anything.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Only the females, called vampire queens can turn humans. And all vampires are bound by their tethers to their territories.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: All of them go batshit insane on the full moon, and they are all required to serve in the military. And as with vampires, only an Alpha can create new werewolves.
* PerfectPoison: Foxglove seems to be in this universe. Likely due to the lack of sufficient advancements in medicine.

* GadgeteerGenius: Vieve and her aunt. Most of the boys at Bunson's Politecnic Institute.

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* ActionGirl: Sophronia, Sighead, Monique, Lady Linette and many others in the school.

* AlphaBitch: Monique de Pelouse full stop.

* AlliterativeTitle: Every book in the series so far.
* BigFriendlyDog: Captain Niall ties his hat to his head so it wont fall off when he transforms in his werewolf form for this very purpose. On their first meeting the provincial Sophronia is quite frightened at first but then she sees the hat and recognizes the Captain.
* BitchAlert: Monique's introduction scene. Sophronia has a feeling that she is being sneered at, and she is right.

* BlackWidow: Preshea desperately wants to become one. She already is plotting how to best kill her first husband.
* BlueBlood: Most of the girls in the school are gentry if not nobility outright. The Bunson boys play it straighter, having the sons and heirs of noblemen in their ranks. Felix, a Viscount and heir to a Dukedoom is the main example.

* DancesAndBalls: It is Victorian England. One coming out ball for a debutante on each book so far.

* ForeShadowing: In the first book when Professor Braithewope (a vampire) wants to know what Sophronia was thinking during their first class, and she tells him she was wondering about him and his tether to the airship. She further muses out loud about wondering what would happen to him if he fell off the airship and outside the range of his tether and whether or not he will die. [[spoiler: In book two, he DOES fall out of the airship from an extreme height, his tether snaps, and the combination of the fall and snap leaves him near-dead. Though he does survive, the snap left him completely insane, and he never recovers. And it's at least partially Sophronia's fault.]]

* GadgeteerGenius: Vieve, her aunt. Most of the boys at Bunson's Politecnic Institute.

** [[spoiler: Mademoiselle Geraldine is in fact aware of the true nature of her school, and is just as capable as the other teachers.]]
** [[spoiler: Agatha is in service to Lord Ackledarma, and has been since the beginning.]]
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: The main reason of Felix, Lord Mersey's attraction to Sophronia. She is the only young lady that ignores and scorns him due to him being the heir to a duke.
* LadyOfWar: What all the students aspire to become. Sighead especially fits this trope.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Mademoiselle Geraldine has no idea that her own school is a training ground for spies and assassins, [[InvokedTrope and keeping it that way is part of the curriculum.]] [[spoiler: Except that Book 4 reveals that she was in on it the whole time, and is herself a fully capable intelligencer]].
* LuddWasRight: [[spoiler: The Picklemen plot involves reprogramming the bulk of Britain's mechanicals, causing them to turn against their masters. When the plot is thwarted, instead of coming up with proper safeguards the British just destroy all their mechanicals and refuse to use the technology.]]

* TheMillstone: Dimity tends to faint on every action scene.
* MrFanservice: Captain Nial is almost always in some state of undress.

* MundaneUtility: The mechanimal Bumbersnoot, who can fly and be used to smuggle the occasional {{MacGuffin}}, also makes a lovely legwarmer.
* NonIdleRich: Many of the students are wealthy to various degrees and they are all learning to become spies.

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: All of them go batshit insane on the full moons and they are all required to serve in the military. And as with vampires, only an Alpha can create new werewolves.

* ProperLady: What Dimity and Agatha would rather be. Alas family legacy demands otherwise. Sophronia's sisters and mother.
* RewatchBonus: [[spoiler: The series reads ''very'' differently once you know that Mademoiselle Geraldine knows about the school's true nature and is a full intelligencer, and that Agatha has been an active agent in service to Lord Ackeldama since before she arrived at the school.]]
* SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler: The little boy Vieve is revealed to be little girl Genevieve.]]

* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Sighead has very distinctive golden-yellow eyes, possibly due to werewolf heritage.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: The sootie Soap, full name Phineas B. Crow. Lord Felix and Captain Nial.
* TeamPet: The mechanimal Bumbersnoot. Not only cute but he also is very useful to Sophronia.
* TeenSuperSpy: Sophronia is well in her way to become one.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Sophronia and Dimity, but Sophronia has her girly side too. A better example would be Sighead contrasted to all the other girls in her dormitory.

* UptownGirl: Soap aka Phineas B. Crow the sootie has an intense attraction to Sophronia who is the daughter of landed gentry.

* {{Fainting}}: The girls get lessons on how to faint properly, gracefully and avoid injury while doing so. Dimity faints every time she sees blood.

* AfraidOfBlood: Dimity, to the extreme.

* SupernaturalGoldenEyes: Sighead has very distinctive golden-yellow eyes, possibly due to werewolf heritage.

The Finishing School series is set in the same world as ''Literature/TheParasolProtectorate'', only 25 years earlier, and features a finishing academy located in a giant caterpillar-like dirigible floating over Dartmoor in which young ladies are taught to ... ''finish'' everything and everyone, as needed. There is steampunk etiquette! There is well-dressed espionage! There is Victorian fake food! There is a flying mechanical sausage dog named Bumbersnoot! The first book, ''Etiquette & Espionage'', released Feb 5, 2013, was an instant New York Times Bestseller.

* ActionFashionista: The majority of the Mademoiselle Geraldine's girls.

The Finishing School series is set in the same world as Literature/TheParasolProtectorate, only 25 years earlier, and features a finishing academy located in a giant caterpillar-like dirigible floating over Dartmoor in which young ladies are taught to ... ''finish'' everything and everyone, as needed. There is steampunk etiquette! There is well-dressed espionage! There is Victorian fake food! There is a flying mechanical sausage dog named Bumbersnoot! The first book, ''Etiquette & Espionage'', released Feb 5, 2013, was an instant New York Times Bestseller.

* LittleMissBadass: Vieve.

Currently there are three books in the series and one yet unpublished:

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Mademoiselle Geraldine has no idea that her own school is a training ground for spies and assassins, [[InvokedTrope and keeping it that way is part of the curriculum. Except that Book 4 reveals that she was in on it the whole time, and is herself a fully capable intelligencer]].

* ForeShadowing: In the first book when Professor Braithewope (a vampire) wants to know what Sophronia was thinking during their first class, and she tells him she was wondering about him and his tether to the airship. She further muses out loud about wondering what would happen to him if he fell off the airship and outside the range of his tether and whether or not he will die. [[spoiler: In book two, he DOES fall out of the airship from an extreme height, his tether snaps, and the combination of the fall and snap leaves him near-dead. And it's at least partially Sophronia's fault. He is still bedridden by the end of the book, and his ultimate fate will presumably be explored in the further installments.]]

* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: The main reason of Felix, Lord Mersey's attraction to Sophronia. She is the only young lady that ignores and scorns him due to him being the heir to a duke.
* LadyOfWar: What all the students aspire to become.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Mademoiselle Geraldine has no idea that her own school is a training ground for spies and assassins, [[InvokedTrope and keeping it that way is part of the curriculum]].

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: All of them go batshit insane on the full moons and they are all required to serve in the military.

The Finishing School series is set in the same world as Literature/TheParasolProtectorate, only 25 years earlier, and features a finishing academy located in a giant caterpillar-like dirigible floating over Dartmoor in which young ladies are taught to ...''finish'' everything and everyone, as needed. There is steampunk etiquette! There is well-dressed espionage! There is Victorian fake food! There are flying mechanical sausage dogs named Bumbersnoot! The first book, ''Etiquette & Espionage'', released Feb 5, 2013 was an instant New York Times Bestseller.

The series concern an unconventional young girl called Sophronia Temminnick, who after an incident at home is send to a finishing school by her mother. At first despondent, Sophronia changes her mind when she realizes that they do not just teach manners at Mademoiselle Geraldine's, but espionage. Quite delighted she stays on and embarks on many adventures.

The Finishing School series is set in the same world as Literature/TheParasolProtectorate, only 25 years earlier, and features a finishing academy located in a giant caterpillar-like dirigible floating over Dartmoor in which young ladies are taught to . . . finish . . . everything . . . and everyone . . . as needed. There is steampunk etiquette! There is well-dressed espionage! There is Victorian fake food! There are flying mechanical sausage dogs named Bumbersnoot! The first book, ''Etiquette & Espionage'', released Feb 5, 2013 was an instant New York Times Bestseller.

* SamusIsAGirl: The little boy Vieve is revealed to be little girl Genevieve.

The series concern an unconventional young girl called Sophronia Temminnick, who after an incident at home is send to a Finishing School by her mother. At first despondent, Sophronia changes her mind when she realizes that they do not just teach manners at Mademoseille's Geraldine's, but espionage. Quite delighted she stays on and embarks on many adventures.

The Finishing School series is set in the same world as Literature/TheParasolProtectorate, only 25 years earlier, and features a finishing academy located in a giant caterpillar-like dirigible floating over Dartmoor in which young ladies are taught to . . . finish . . . everything . . . and everyone . . . as needed. There is steampunk etiquette! There is well-dressed espionage! There is Victorian fake food! There are flying mechanical sausage dogs named Bumbersnoot! The first book, Etiquette & Espionage, released Feb 5, 2013 was an instant New York Times Bestseller.

* AcademyOfAdventure: Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing School. It even is located in an airship.

The Finishing School series is set in the same world as Literature/TheParasolProtectorate, only 25 years earlier, and features a finishing academy located in a giant caterpillar-like dirigible floating over Dartmoor in which young ladies are taught to . . . finish . . . everything . . . and everyone . . . as needed. There is steampunk etiquette! There is well-dressed espionage! There is Victorian fake food! There are flying mechanical sausage dogs named Bumbersnoot! The first book, Etiquette & Espionage, released Feb 5, 2013 as an instant New York Times Bestseller.

The Finishing School series is set in the same world as Literature/TheParasolProtectorate, only 25 years earlier, and features a finishing academy located in a giant caterpillar-like dirigible floating over Dartmoor in which young ladies are taught to . . . finish . . . everything . . . and everyone . . . as needed. There is steampunk etiquette! There is well-dressed espionage! There is Victorian fake food. There are flying mechanical sausage dogs named Bumbersnoot. The first book, Etiquette & Espionage, released Feb 5, 2013 as an instant New York Times Bestseller.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Mademoiselle Geraldine who has no idea that her own school is a training ground for spies and assassins.

* ForeShadowing: In the first book when Professor Braithewope (a vampire) wants to know what Sophronia was thinking during their first class, and she tells him she was wondering about him and his tether to the airship. She further muses out loud about wondering what would happen to him if he fell off the airship and outside the range of his tether and whether or not he will die. [[spoiler: In book two, he DOES fall out of the airship from an extreme height, his tether snaps, and the combination of the fall and snap leaves him near-dead. He is still bedridden by the end of the book, and his ultimate fate will presumably be explored in the further installments. And it's at least partially her fault.]]

* Foreshadowing: In the first book when Professor Braithewope (a vampire) wants to know what Sophronia was thinking during their first class, and she tells him she was wondering about him and his tether to the airship. She further muses out loud about wondering what would happen to him if he fell off the airship and outside the range of his tether and whether or not he will die. [[spoiler: In book two, he DOES fall out of the airship from an extreme height, his tether snaps, and the combination of the fall and snap leaves him near-dead. He is still bedridden by the end of the book, and his ultimate fate will presumably be explored in the further intallments.]]