The Book of Wonder · Character
Miss Cubbidge
A proper young woman of Prince of Wales' Square whose eighteenth birthday is upended when a dragon of romance carries her out of Belgrave Square entirely.
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First appearance: Miss Cubbidge and the Dragon of Romance
As a major figure in The Book of Wonder, Miss Cubbidge is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
The protagonist, abducted from her father's house in London by a dragon and taken to a timeless realm of Romance.
Miss Cubbidge lives at Number 12A, daughter of a newly elected MP, speaking in an affected voice and dismissing the world with a drawled 'Go to!' On the eve of her eighteenth birthday she vanishes from the respectable oblong of her square, and the tale of her encounter with the dragon is sung in the balconies of Belgrave Square and the towers of Pont Street. Her disappearance tests whether a life of drawing-room propriety can survive contact with genuine wonder.
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- Breaking point
- Closing
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