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"Mr. Redruth begs the society's pardon, but he is not a magician at all... It is his daughter who is the magician. He has one son and three daughters and he says that they are all magicians. The others...[prefer] to pursue their studies privately at home without distractions."
"Miss Redruth, the young lady in the red velvet gown, was one of the first to speak. Her voice was low and rather hurried. She was not used to speaking in public and not all of the magicians caught her words, but her delivery was very passionate... Magic would be freed from the shackles that Gilbert Norrell had placed upon it!"
"From the Duke of Roxburghe's library: 'The Parliament of Women' was an allegorical sixteenth-century description of the wisdom and magic that belongs particularly to women."
If men are engaged in the newly fashionable practice of English Magic, what place for women?
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This is supposed to be serialized, though another update hasn't gone up since Yuletide. Still, this is an amazing beginning to exactly the kind of story I want to read in this universe. Also it has the most pitch perfect authorial voice ever.
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Heartsall Manor, Wiltshire
1st September, 1817
My dear Miss Greysteel:
I hope you will forgive my daring in corresponding with you, unintroduced, but I write to you on a matter of, I hope, mutual interest. You will doubtless have heard, among your circle of acquaintances, of the reconvening of the Learned Society of Yorkshire Magicians by Mr. John Childermass (who worked so lately for Mr. Gilbert Norrell), and his companion Vinculus, former street sorceror, now famous primarily for his skin rather than his magical accomplishments. You will also doubtless have heard of the great debate between the Strangites and Norrellites, which grew in ferocity and intellectual fervor until the bonds of fellowship could no longer constrain it, and its subsequent sundering into factions that this time, I fear, will not be resolved except by the return of either His Grace the King or the Two Magicians of England.
The stylistic bravura here, omg.
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O's first story for Yuletide