Just read the typescript of my first Spanish Bride chapter. Distinctly Good! Georgette Heyer to Leonard Moore, letter, 14 July 1939 Inspiration! On March 25 1939, Georgette Heyer told her agent that she had “been …
A very Happy New Year everyone and to Heyer readers everywhere! 2021 marks the hundredth anniversary of Georgette Heyer’s first novel, The Black Moth. Written when she was just seventeen and published in September 1921, …
Georgette always enjoyed Christmas and was a generous giver of gifts to family and friends. Her favourite shopping destination for Christmas gifts was Fortnum and Mason, the famous department store that was literally across the …
A memorable meeting In a memorable meeting, I first met Jane Aiken Hodge early in 2002. I had travelled to England for what was to be the first of several marvellous research trips to further …
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To thine own peace. If he be now returned, As checking at his voyage, and that he means No more to undertake it, I will work him To an exploit, now ripe in my device, Under the …
“On the road to White Ladies” Georgette began writing her new historical novel in the spring of 1938. It was not an easy time in Britain, for the storm-clouds of war were gathering and rumour …
In August 1937 Georgette Heyer completed the manuscript of her Waterloo novel, An Infamous Army. It had been a huge effort requiring intense research and long days of reading and writing and she had loved …
Her most ambitious In mid-November 1936, Georgette Heyer was writing the final chapters of her murder mystery, They Found Him Dead . She finished it by the end of the month and two months later, …
Rest & Recreation Having delivered The Talisman Ring manuscript in good time to her agent, in mid-July 1936, Georgette once again took her family to Bamburgh for two week’s of rest and recreation. This time …