Tag: Finishing School

The courses offered at Madame Geraldine’s Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality are wide and varied, everything from the proper way to serve tea to the best way to administer poison. Manners and Mutiny …

Waistcoats and Weaponry finds Sophronia in her second year at Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality where there is plenty to do. She is busy trying to figure out how to deal …

Curtsies and Conspiracies is the second book in the Finishing School series and, like the first, a mix of steampunk, humor, and adventure, now with a little light romance thrown in (somewhat to Sophronia’s dismay). …

Take a boarding school story. Add a dollop of steampunk, a sprinkling of mystery, and a healthy helping of humor, and you have Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia Temminneck is not particularly …