History Literature / SorceryAndCecelia

* KarmicTransformation: The villains of ''The Mislaid Magician'' get caught in the backlash of their own BalefulPolymorph spell and are both turned into dogs.

%%* EpistolaryNovel
%%* EvilSorcerer: [[spoiler:Sir Hilary Bedrick]]

%%* ScrapbookStory: The first sequel is this, rather than purely epistolary.

%%* KarmicTransformation: The villains of ''The Mislaid Magician''

%%* LongTitle: All three books.

** In ''The Mislaid Magician'', Kate thinks that she isn't a very good magician because she can only do three things with magic -- locate her husband and/or children no matter where they are, contact her husband and/or children no matter where they are, and keep her hair up. Cecelia points out that those are the only three things that has any interest in doing that she needs magic to do.

* UnskilledButStrong: Kate is implied to have at least as much raw potential as Cecy or Thoms, but she only ever cared to learn three spells: one to find things, one to keep her hair up, and one to call Thomas. In ''The Mislaid Magician'', when Edward gets kidnapped and Kate puts her full power behind the finding spell, Thomas says that with the amount of force she gave it, the spell would have found Edward even if he'd been shipped off to Fiji.

* PlotInducedStupidity: 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.

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%%* BalefulPolymorph: The plot of ''The Mislaid Magician'' revolves around this.

* AlternateHistory

* BalefulPolymorph: The plot of ''The Mislaid Magician'' revolves around this.
* BattleButler: Thomas hires one to protect Kate.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Both couples. This ''is'' based on Jane Austen novels, after all.

* BigFancyHouse: Given that it's the Regency, naturally.
* BlackMagicianGirl: Cecelia. Her foil is Kate, who ''would'' be a WhiteMagicianGirl if [[spoiler: she was at all interested in developing her magical potential]].

* BlueBlood

* BrainyBrunette: Both Cecy and Kate. James and Thomas often wonder if they aren't too clever for their own good.
* [[ChickMagnet Boy Magnet]]: Georgy and Dorothea, the latter absolutely against her will.

* CoolOldLady: Lady Sylvia. And Aunt Elizabeth.

* CoolUncle:
** Kate seems to regard Cecelia’s father this way.
** [[spoiler:Mr. Wrexton becomes this when he marries Aunt Elizabeth, though Cecelia notes that it's very hard for her to call him anything but Mr. Wrexton.]]
* CuteClumsyGirl: Kate.

* DeadpanSnarker: Practically everyone. The series was, after all, heavily inspired by Jane Austen.

* EitherOrTitle: All three books.
* EpistolaryNovel
* EvilSorcerer: [[spoiler:Sir Hilary Bedrick]]
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Oliver and Cecelia respectively. Also Georgy and Kate.

* FunctionalMagic
* TheGamblingAddict: Kate and Georgy's grandfather. Georgy shows signs of going the same way.

* GentlemanWizard

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Thomas and James, Kate and Cecelia

* HistoricalPersonPunchline: The above-mentioned Drina.

* KarmicTransformation: The villains of ''The Mislaid Magician''
* KissingCousins: Georgy and Oliver.

* TheLancer: James Tarleton
* LongTitle: All three books.

* MaidenAunt: Charlotte and Elizabeth. [[spoiler: Elizabeth later marries Mr. Wrexton.]]
* MamaBear: Kate in ''The Mislaid Magician''.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: As the main characters get involved in spy work, almost everyone uses this at one point or another.
* OldMaid: Aunts Charlotte and Elizabeth. [[spoiler: Elizabeth later marries Mr. Wrexton.]]

* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Regency period, what else?

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

* ReleasingFromThePromise: The Marquis begs this of Kate once.
* RegencyEngland
* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: Daniel and Georgy. Georgy is completely convinced her husband is trying to kill her.
* RoundRobin: Wrede wrote Cecelia's letters. Stevermer wrote Kate's.

* ScrapbookStory: The first sequel is this, rather than purely epistolary.
* ShortTitleLongElaborateSubtitle

* AdultFear:
** Consider Oliver's situation in ''Sorcery and Cecelia.'' Cecy and Kate (and the reader) knows that once he gets turned into a tree, Thomas ensures he's safe in hiding. But as far as his actual other family members, they have absolutely no idea for most of the book..
** ''The Mislaid Magician'' - The constant threats to Kate's and Cecy's children. And poor Drina...

** Lady Sylvia is a pretty cool parent too, even if she makes some rather caustic offhand comments about Thomas, regardless whether he is in the room or not.

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