Or you can use this link to take a closer look. Here's an image of the very first letter from Patricia C. Doing so does not, however, keep the girls out of trouble. At any rate, the aunts have decided to split them up. Normally one would expect the two to go to London together, but there was this incident with a goat. We begin with Cecilia, who has been left in the country (Essex, to be precise) while her cousin Kate goes to London. Book cover below right is from the new ebook edition.) Wrede and Caroline Stevermer played the game, they went all out: the letters turned into a novel! (Book cover above left is from the 2004 print edition. What's really great about this book (besides the story itself) is that it began as the Letter Game, in which two writers build a story by writing back and forth as characters, not planning ahead in the slightest. Before there was Kat, Incorrigible by Stephanie Burgis, before there was even Downton Abbey, there was Sorcery and Cecilia, or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot, an epistolary fantasy novel which reads like a Regency adventure with a dollop of romance but includes magic as a rather ordinary aspect of British society in 1817.
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