“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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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 Heyer was a stern realist. She wrote romantic comedies, entertainments set in the Regency period in England, when women concentrated entirely on the essential business of getting married, hopefully for love, preferably with rank
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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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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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‘Founded in the heart of London in 1803 as a speculative venture, offering apartments to well-to-do bachelors, Albany has, for nigh on two centuries, played host to a rich diversity of inhabitants, embracing both the
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Georgette Heyer did not publish a book in 1945. She had been remarkably prolific throughout the 1930s with sixteen published titles in that decade alone. The 1940s, however, would prove to be a decade of
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A watershed year !942 was a watershed year for Georgette Heyer. In May she finished writing Penhallow, the novel she believed was ‘a bit of a tour-de-force‘ and in November she and Ronald moved into
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A story called “Corinthian” It was in 1936 that Georgette Heyer first had the idea of writing a story called “Corinthian”. Originally intended as a short story, she soon decided that “that title would do
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