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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I recently received an email from a Georgette Heyer reader. She wrote to tell me that she and her daughter both loved Heyer and that they had a sort of code for when things were tough.
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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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‘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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I swallowed and in a trembling voice said, ‘You—you’re Jane Austen.’
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