My Lord John – The One Unfinished Novel
Her death came as a shock On 4 July 1974 famed author Georgette Heyer died. She was 71 and over her fifty-year career had written 55 novels and an anthology of short stories. At the …
Book Review
Lady of Quality – the End
HM Queen Elizabeth II While this post is about Georgette Heyer’s last complete novel, it seems somehow fitting to pay tribute to HM Queen Elizabeth II who died today (8 September 2022) at the age …
Charity Girl – against the odds part 3
“It has left my withers wholly unwrung” On 1 October 1970, Georgette Heyer’s penultimate Regency novel, Charity Girl, was published. On that same day, The Times newspaper published a long article about Georgette, her readers …
Charity Girl – against the odds part 2
“I’m writing to ask you a favour” Dear Mrs. Rougier, I’m writing to ask you a favour. I wonder if you would consider waiving your quite reasonable distaste for being photographed and allow me to …
Charity Girl – against the odds – part 1
As you will see by my use of the typewriter, I am busily engaged on my new book. There is no room to write at my desk once I’ve set up the Infernal Machine! I …
Cousin Kate – a Gothic novel?
“Now, don’t ask me a whole lot of questions about this epic! I know what it’s ABOUT, but I also know (knowing myself) that it will probably undergo many changes as my Fluid Pen progresses. …
Black Sheep – a new type of hero
“I hope you and Joan will have a good Christmas & that the New Year may be enlivened for you by news of my new book. At present I have none to give you, but …
Frederica – an interrupted novel part 2
I am now wondering what Frederica did & why, & whatever induced me to embrace writing as a profession. I haven’t a clue to any of these problems. Georgette Heyer to Pat Wallace 30 January …
Frederica – an interrupted novel part 1
“Miss Heyer is one of the finest writers operating today and it is well past time for this to be declared firmly and openly. She, too, probes into the souls and hearts of her characters …
