“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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After the huge success of Friday’s Child in 1944, Georgette Heyer had become a regular on the bestseller lists with a reputation for producing a sparkling new novel annually. Although she had regularly written two
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Georgette and the “Great Jane” Jane Austen was Georgette Heyer’s favourite author and Austen’s six novels her choice of literature should she ever have been marooned on a desert island. A close reading of Heyer’s
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‘IT was in Winchester Cathedral that Great-Aunt Butters first confessed her belief in ghosts.
I stared at her, hoping I hadn’t heard correctly. I couldn’t take much more.’
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‘MARRY you?’ repeated Jane, and there was that in her voice which ought to have given him pause.
‘It would be an honour, Miss Austen.’
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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 Austen.’ I breathed the name and tried to absorb the impossible
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Jane was entranced by the collection of family memorabilia carefully displayed in her old home…
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