Georgette Heyer’s third novel was unique. It is her shortest book, she wrote it in three weeks and it was her only book written under a pseudonym. The Transformation of Philip Jettan by “Stella Martin” […]
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Georgette Heyer turned 17 in August 1919. Some months later, her younger brother Boris became seriously ill. By February 1920 he was recovering but it was felt that a change of scene would do him
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‘‘Miss Jane Austen.’ She stared down her elegant nose at me. ‘For I am certain we have never been introduced.’
I gazed at her in disbelief. Was I really awake and being given a lesson in manners by a woman who’d been dead for over two hundred years? ‘
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‘Mr Clarke considered the question with such ponderous gravity that she itched to seize quill, ink and paper from the nearby secretaire and set down the preposterous scene.’
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Jane was entranced by the collection of family memorabilia carefully displayed in her old home…
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