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 […]
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“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
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Direct from Georgette’s pen It is rare to have a synopsis of a Georgette Heyer novel direct from Georgette’s pen, but among the letters she wrote to her friend and former publisher, A.S. Frere, the
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‘Though like Ronald, you don’t know Anything about Anything, I feel your instinct may inform you that this is just the sort of nonsense which suits my particular brand of humour’ Georgette Heyer to Max
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A few weeks ago Mrs Rougier told me that she has made a start on a new novel. The provisional title is NONESUCH. I have no idea when it is likely to be ready, but
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[We] remember instead the long years of happiness we found in our intimate friendship with her; full of light, laughter and the joy of living. A.S. Frere to Richard Rougier, letter, July 1974 47 Years
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“So I’ve settled that one of you shall have her, and my fortune into the bargain.” Great-Uncle Matthew Penicuik. An outrageous scenario The miserly Mr Pencuik is guardian to the orphaned Kitty Charing and he
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By 1950, six years after writing Friday’s Child, Georgette Heyer had written another three novels set in the English Regency. Of her 35 published novels, at that date only seven were set in the Regency
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Myths and legends are pervasive things that, once they take hold of the public consciousness, are almost impossible to remove. For those who read and love Georgette Heyer’s many novels there a couple of myths
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