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It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to Finishing School.
Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than... read more
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Characters edit
- Sophronia Angelina Temminnick: The main character of the book. A tomboy. Her mother wants her to be a proper lady like her older sisters.
- Dimity Ann Plumleigh-Teignmott: The first girl Sophronia meets when going to Miss Geraldine's Finishing Academy and becomes her friend. Faints at the sight of blood.
- Sidheag Maccon, Lady Kingair: One of the new girls (the new girls at the Academy are called "debuts") like Sophronia at the Academy. Sidheag is from Scottish descent and doesn't care much for girly things. One of the teachers said she would never become a proper lady even if it is her title.
- Monique de Pelouse: One of the girls Sophronia meets at the Academy. As a punishment, she was taken from the higher level classes to the beginner classes . Snarky. Thinks highly of herself.
- Pillover Plumleigh-Teignmott: Dimity's grubby brother, an evil genius in training.
- Preshea Buss: Pretty, petty student.
- Agatha Woosmoss: Shy student.
- Mademoiselle Geraldine: Clueless headmistress of an exclusive, albeit unorthodox, finishing school.
- Captain Niall: Dashing werewolf on the school staff. Teaches combat.
- Lady Linette: Teaches music, intelligence-gathering, espionage, seduction.
- Professor Lefoux: Teaches modern languages and weaponry.
- Professor Braithwope: Teaches history and vampire defense.
- Sister Matilda Herschel-Teape: Teaches household management and poisons.
- Bumbersnoot: Sophronia's pet mechanimal.
- Phineas B. Crow, AKA Soap: A friendly sootie.
- Vieve Lefoux: Technologically-inclined nine-year-old.
- Mrs. Temminnick: Sophronia's long-suffering mother, beset by many children.
- Petunia Temminnick: Sophronia's snooty older sister, whose ball must not be ruined by an embarrassing kid sister.
- Mrs. Barnaclegoose: Mrs. Temminnick's ridiculous friend.
- Frowbritcher: Temminnicks' mechanical butler.
- Lord Dingleproops: Dimity's crush, Pillover's jerk of a classmate.
- Roger: Timminnicks' stable lad.
Setting & Locations edit
- Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality: Floating finishing school where elite girls learn to be ladies and spies.
- Bunson and Lacroix's Boys' Polytechnique: Training academy for evil geniuses.
- Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire: Closest town to Timminnick house
- Swiffle-on-Exe: Site of girls' exciting evening at the theatre.
First Sentence edit
Sophronia intended to pull the dumbwaiter up from the kitchen to outside the front parlor on the ground floor where Mrs. Barnaclegoose was taking tea.
Table of Contents edit
Lesson 1: The Start of Being Finished
Lesson 2: Beware Flywaymen, for They are Ill-Dressed and Ill-Mannered
Lesson 3: How Not to Make Introductions
Lesson 4: The Correct Configuration of a Finishing School
Lesson 5: Never Hurl Garlic Mash at a Man with a Crossbow
Lesson 6: The Real Meaning of Finishing
Lesson 7: The Proper Place for Sooties
Lesson 8: The Teaching Habits of Werewolves
Lesson 9: How Not to Flirt
Lesson 10: The Correct Way to Get Caught
Lesson 11: On the Importance of Proper Dress
Lesson 12: Proper Communication in Social Situations
Lesson 13: Attack of the Fan and Sprinkle
Lesson 14: On Intermingling the Classes
Lesson 15: Keeping Proper Records and How to Steal Them
Lesson 16: Breaking, Burgling, and a Proper Breakfast
Lesson 17: Conducting Oneself Properly at a Ball
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 2 in Finishing School. (standard series)
Followed by Curtsies & Conspiracies.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Gail Carriger (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Country: USA
Publication Date: February 5, 2013
ISBN: 978-0316190084
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Country: USA
Publication Date: February 5, 2013
ISBN: 978-0316190084
Page Count: 320
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- Gail Carriger: Author's website
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