3.09.2013
When a finished lady’s hands are otherwise occupied (examples: taking tea, driving a carriage, staking vampires) there’s always time for listening to a good book.
3 reasons to press play:
1) The British accent.
2) Gail Carriger’s words are maybe even BETTER when read aloud. Maybe.
3) There’s that British accent.
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3.07.2013
If your carriage is hijacked en route to finishing school (as carriages so often are) by flywaymen who aim to rob or kidnap you (as flywaymen so often do), this flowchart will help to define your fate.
Beware the highwaymen of the skies! Even a properly finished lady thinks dark insults at these ill-mannered men—the type of slander learned from stable lads.
Nothing puts a wrinkle in the day faster than having your carriage hijacked by flywaymen, don’t you think?
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2.26.2013
Now remember, a lady rides sidesaddle, NOT astride. Your mother would be in hysterics at the very idea that a daughter of hers would ride a werewolf astride! Why, next you’ll be showing ankle…
A how-to for your Tuesday.
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2.19.2013
![Spotted: Etiquette & Espionage ink, literally.
[Snapshot borrowed from Gail Carriger’s lovely Live Journal.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/e6c8bbccaf8d435be57e3e9800663009/tumblr_mihprat8Su1rkciaro1_500.jpg)
Spotted: Etiquette & Espionage ink, literally.
[Snapshot borrowed from Gail Carriger’s lovely Live Journal.]
2.14.2013
As it happens, this could not be a more perfect time to starting practicing this lesson.
Hehe.
2.13.2013
Gail Carriger (tea-drinker, writer of goodness greatness and Victorian fashion enthusiast) dropped by the Little, Brown Lounge last night to talk shop on her YA series, Finishing School.
You were otherwise engaged last night? Exhale. It’s okay! We’ve archived the whole thing for you.
2.08.2013
When one gets accepted into Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy one is all like:
Rule: The phrase “how perfectly topping” should henceforth be integrated into each and every conversation.
2.07.2013
Now THOSE are the nails of a lady of quality. (#nailart inspo: @gailcarriger’s Etiquette & Espionage.) (at Mademoiselle Geraldine’s)
2.05.2013
Welcome debuts! Welcome to finishing school!
Follow us here and you will learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but you will also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espionage—in the politest possible ways, of course.
And let us not forget our required reading: Gail Carriger’s Finishing School, Book the First: Etiquette & Espionage, is now available at all our favorite bookstores!
Start reading and start finishing.
We are in for a rousing first year’s education…
Oooh! Lookit! The Etiquette & Espionage cover, the fancified version.
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