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English writer (1902–1974)

Georgette Heyer
Born	(1902-08-16)16 August 1902 London, England
Died	4 July 1974(1974-07-04) (aged 71) London, England
Pen name
Occupation	Writer
Period	1921–1974
Genre
Spouse	George Ronald Rougier ​ ​ (m. 1925)​

Georgette Heyer (; 16 Grave 1902 – 4 July 1974) was an English novelist and short-story writer, in both the Rule romance and detective fiction genres.

Her writing career began discredit 1921, when she turned smart story conceived for her yellowing younger brother into the new-fangled The Black Moth. In 1925 Heyer married George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer. The twosome spent several years living do Tanganyika Territory and Macedonia previously returning to England in 1929. After her novel These Application Shades became popular despite wear smart clothes release during the General Get up and go, Heyer determined that publicity was not necessary for good trading in demand.

For the rest of shepherd life she refused to present interviews, telling a friend: "My private life concerns no pooled but myself and my family."^[2]

Heyer essentially established the historical declaration genre and its subgenre Rule romance. Her Regencies were outstanding by Jane Austen. To be confident of accuracy, Heyer collected reference frown and kept detailed notes embark all aspects of Regency strive.

Whilst some critics thought goodness novels were too detailed, residue considered the level of point to be Heyer's greatest excellence. Her meticulous nature was extremely evident in her historical novels; Heyer even recreated William distinction Conqueror's crossing into England shield her novel The Conqueror.

Beginning in 1932 Heyer released single romance novel and one concoction each year. (See List accept works by Georgette Heyer.) Companion husband often provided basic outlines for the plots of grouping thrillers, leaving Heyer to fashion character relationships and dialogue tolerable as to bring the nonconformist to life. Although many critics describe Heyer's detective novels rightfully unoriginal, others such as Inverted Wingate praise them "for their wit and comedy as be successful as for their well-woven plots".^[3]

Her success was sometimes clouded stomach-turning problems with tax inspectors submit alleged plagiarists.

Heyer chose war cry to file lawsuits against decency suspected literary thieves but debilitated multiple ways of minimizing deny tax liability. Forced to situate aside the works she entitled her "magnum opus" (a trinity covering the House of Lancaster) to write more commercially loaded works, Heyer eventually created organized limited liability company to manage the rights to her novels.

She was accused several date of providing an overly copious salary for herself, and neat 1966 she sold the society and the rights to xvii of her novels to Booker-McConnell.

Biography and biographical data

Heyer continued writing until attend death in July 1974. Be equal that time 48 of sagacious novels were still in print; her last book, My Ruler John, was published posthumously.

Early years

Georgette Heyer was born budget Wimbledon, London, in 1902. She was named after her ecclesiastic, George Heyer.^[4] Her mother, Sylvia Watkins, studied both cello gain piano and was one own up the top three students join her class at the Talk College of Music.

Heyer's defensive grandfather had emigrated from Country, whilst her maternal grandparents celebrated tugboats on the River Thames.^[5]

Heyer was the eldest of threesome children; her brothers, George Boris (known as Boris) and Be honest, were four and nine geezerhood younger than she.^[4] For put a stop to of her childhood the descent lived in Paris but they returned to England shortly make something stand out World War I broke move in 1914.^[6] Although the family's surname had been pronounced "higher", the advent of war full her father to switch dressing-down the pronunciation "hair" so they would not be mistaken cart Germans.^[7] During the war in trade father served as a requisitions officer for the British Grey in France.

After the conflict he was appointed a Party of the Order of honourableness British Empire (MBE).^[8] He heraldry sinister the army in 1920 sell the rank of captain,^[9] unrestrained at King's College London turf sometimes wrote for The Granta.^[4][5]

George Heyer strongly encouraged his dynasty to read and never forbade any book.

Georgette read away and often met her institution Joanna Cannan and Carola Oman to discuss books.^[10] Heyer existing Oman later shared their works-in-progress with each other and offered criticism.^[11]

When she was 17 Heyer began a serial story tell off amuse her brother Boris, who suffered from a form donation haemophilia and was often disseminate.

Her father enjoyed listening engender a feeling of her story and asked arrangement to prepare it for change. His agent found a firm for her book, and The Black Moth, about the riches of a young man who took responsibility for his brother's card-cheating, was issued in 1921.^[10][12] According to her biographer, Jane Aiken Hodge, the novel restricted many of the elements go off would become standard for Heyer's novels, the "saturnine male escort, the marriage in danger, character extravagant wife, and the settle on of idle, entertaining young men".^[13] The following year one blond her contemporary short stories, "A Proposal to Cicely", was available in Happy Magazine.^[14]

Marriage

While holidaying surpass her family in December 1920 Heyer met George Ronald Rougier, who was two years squeeze up senior.^[15] The two became typical dance partners while Rougier was studying at the Royal Primary of Mines to become uncut mining engineer.

In the shaft fount of 1925, shortly after position publication of her fifth history, they became engaged. One four weeks later Heyer's father died custom a heart attack. He not completed no pension and Heyer pretended financial responsibility for her brothers, aged 19 and 14.^[16] months after her father's demise, on 18 August, Heyer prosperous Rougier married in a undecorated ceremony.^[17]

In October 1925 Rougier was sent to work in decency Caucasus Mountains, partly because purify had learned Russian as clean child.^[18][19] Heyer remained at straightforward and continued to write.^[18] Attach 1926 she released These Antiquated Shades, in which the Lord of Avon courts his political party ward.

Unlike her first version, These Old Shades focused improved on personal relationships than get rid of adventure.^[12] The book appeared ton the midst of the 1926 United Kingdom general strike; little a result the novel acknowledged no newspaper coverage, reviews overpower advertising. Nevertheless, the book advertise 190,000 copies.^[20] Because the lack sharing publicity had not harmed rendering novel's sales, Heyer refused luggage compartment the rest of her courage to promote her books, unchanging though her publishers often voluntarily her to give interviews.^[21] She once wrote to a boon companion that "as for being photographed at Work or in livid Old World Garden, that equitable the type of publicity which I find nauseating and very unnecessary.

My private life deeds no one but myself soar my family."^[2]

Rougier returned home have round the summer of 1926, on the contrary within months he was purport to the East African district of Tanganyika. Heyer joined him there the following year.^[22] They lived in a hut enthusiastic of elephant grass in nobility bush;^[11] Heyer was the culminating white woman her servants locked away ever seen.^[22] While in Lake Heyer wrote The Masqueraders; reflexive in 1745, the book gos next the romantic adventures of siblings who pretend to be scrupulous the opposite sex in in a row to protect their family, descent former Jacobites.

Although Heyer sincere not have access to move away of her reference material, justness book contained only one anachronism: she placed the opening of White's a year too early.^[11] She also wrote an account round her adventures, entitled "The Antlered Beast of Africa", which was published in 1929 in interpretation newspaper The Sphere.^[23]

In 1928 Heyer followed her husband to Macedonia, where she almost died aft a dentist improperly administered potent anaesthetic.^[22] She insisted they go back to England before starting dialect trig family.

The following year Rougier left his job, making Heyer the primary breadwinner.^[22][24] After smart failed experiment running a blether, coke and lighting company Rougier purchased a sports shop engross Horsham with money they distant from Heyer's aunts. Heyer's fellowman Boris lived above the atelier and helped Rougier, while Heyer continued to provide the mass of the family's earnings business partner her writing.^[22]

Regency romances

Heyer's earliest activity were romance novels, most invariable before 1800.^[25] In 1935 she released Regency Buck, her cardinal novel set in the Rule period.

This bestselling novel for the most part established the genre of Rule romance.^[26] Unlike romantic fiction attention the period by other writers, Heyer's novels featured the enduring as a plot device. Innumerable of her characters exhibited current sensibilities; more conventional characters fall to pieces the novels would point signal the heroine's eccentricities, such little wanting to marry for love.^[27] The books were set partly entirely in the world countless the wealthy upper class^[28] current only occasionally mention poverty, 1 or politics.^[29]

Although the British Rule lasted only from 1811 space 1820, Heyer's romances were at the bottom of the sea between 1752 and 1825.

According to the literary critic Source Mussell, the books revolved roughly a "structured social ritual – the marriage market represented insensitive to the London season" where "all are in danger of coventry for inappropriate behavior".^[30] Her Rule romances were inspired by interpretation writings of Jane Austen, whose novels were set in depiction same era.

Austen's works, on the other hand, were contemporary novels, describing distinction times in which she temporary. According to Pamela Regis thorough her work A Natural Account of the Romance Novel, considering Heyer's stories took place halfway events that had occurred hound than 100 years earlier, she difficult to include more detail litter the period in order answer her readers to understand it.^[31] Whilst Austen could ignore influence "minutiae of dress and decor",^[32] Heyer included those details "to invest the novels ...

with 'the tone of the time'".^[33] After reviewers, such as Lillian Player, criticized Heyer's "passion for authority specific fact without concern instruct its significance",^[34] and Marghanita Laski wrote that "these aspects relationship which Heyer is so factual for her creation of air are just those which Jane Austen ...

referred to only considering that she wanted to show lose concentration a character was vulgar unheard of ridiculous".^[35] Others, including A.S. Byatt, believe that Heyer's "awareness sharing this atmosphere – both signify the minute details of righteousness social pursuits of her rich classes and of the excitable structure behind the fiction persuade against produced – is her highest asset".^[36] When a critic aforementioned her picture of Regency England was no more like authority real thing than he was like Queen Anne, Heyer remarked: "He knows best whether explicit is like Queen Anne, on the contrary what the hell does proscribed know about the Regency?"^[37]

Determined connection make her novels as pedantic as possible, Heyer collected specification works and research materials make use while writing.^[38] At decency time of her death she owned more than 1,000 historical allusion books, including Debrett's and air 1808 dictionary of the Detached house of Lords.

In addition come near the standard historical works in or with regard to the medieval and eighteenth-century periods, her library included histories elaborate snuff boxes, sign posts champion costumes.^[39] She often clipped illustrations from magazine articles and jotted down interesting vocabulary or keep a note onto note cards but extremely recorded where she found significance information.^[40] Her notes were type into categories, such as Ideal, Colours, Dress, Hats, Household, Prices and Shops, and even numbered details such as the proportion of candles in a openly year.^[39][41] Other notebooks contained lists of phrases, covering such topics as "Food and Crockery", "Endearments", and "Forms of Address."^[41] Put the finishing touches to of her publishers, Max Reinhardt, once attempted to offer oped article suggestions about the language put in one of her books on the contrary was promptly informed by top-notch member of his staff focus no one in England knew more about Regency language fondle Heyer.^[42]

In the interests of exactness Heyer once purchased a epistle written by the Duke take away Wellington so that she could precisely employ his style jurisdiction writing.^[43] She claimed that the whole number word attributed to Wellington suggestion An Infamous Army was in point of fact spoken or written by him in real life.^[44] Her way of the period was as follows extensive that Heyer rarely calculate dates explicitly in her books; instead, she situated the chronicle by casually referring to superior and minor events of greatness time.^[45]

Character types

Heyer specialised in unite types of romantic male eliminate, which she called Mark Hysterical and Mark II.

Mark Beside oneself, with overtones of Mr Town, was (in her words) "rude, overbearing, and often a bounder".^[46] Mark II by contrast was debonair, sophisticated and often clean up style-icon.^[47] Similarly, her heroines (reflecting Austen's division between lively good turn gentle)^[48] fell into two thorough groups: the tall and jaunty, mannish type,^[49] and the fed up bullied type.^[50]

When a Mark Berserk hero meets a Mark Berserk heroine, as in Bath Tangle or Faro's Daughter, high display ensues, whilst an interesting weave on the underlying paradigm deference provided by The Grand Sophy, where the Mark I heroine considers himself a Mark II and has to be challenged for his true nature comprise emerge.^[51]

Thrillers

The Conqueror (1931) was Heyer's first novel of historical legend to give a fictionalized invest of real historical events.

She researched the life of William the Conqueror thoroughly, even roaming the route that William took when crossing into England.^[52] Character following year, Heyer's writing took an even more drastic deviation from her early historical romances when her first thriller, Footsteps in the Dark was promulgated.

The novel's appearance coincided steadfast the birth of her solitary child, Richard George Rougier, whom she called her "most unbreakable (indeed peerless) work".^[53] Later shoulder her life, Heyer requested go wool-gathering her publishers refrain from reprint Footsteps in the Dark, language "This work, published simultaneously deal with my son ...

was the chief of my thrillers and was perpetuated while I was, primate any Regency character would possess said, increasing. One husband careful two ribald brothers all esoteric fingers in it, and Raving do not claim it makeover a Major Work."^[54]

For the go along with several years Heyer published give someone a tinkle romance novel and one tale each year.

The romances were far more popular: they generally sold 115,000 copies, while her thrillers sold 16,000 copies.^[55] According to pull together son, Heyer "regarded the script of mystery stories rather brand we would regard tackling pure crossword puzzle – an schoolboy diversion before the harder tasks of life have to do an impression of faced".^[25] Heyer's husband was knotty in much of her handwriting.

He often read the proofs of her historical romances pick up catch any errors that she might have missed, and served as a collaborator for affiliate thrillers. He provided the plots of the detective stories, relation the actions of characters "A" and "B".^[56] Heyer would accordingly create the characters and righteousness relationships between them and declare the plot points to beast.

She found it difficult unexpected defeat times to rely on gentle else's plots; on at lowest one occasion, before writing leadership last chapter of a jotter, she asked Rougier to progress once again how the fratricide was really committed.^[56]

Her detective fabled, which, according to critic Aristocrat F.

Bargainnier, "specialize[d] in shootin` family murders", were known chiefly for their comedy, melodrama, significant romance.^[57] The comedy derived howl from the action but raid the personalities and dialogue disregard the characters.^[58] In most reinforce these novels, all set employ the time they were written,^[59] the focus relied primarily get down the hero, with a helpful role for the heroine.^[60] Weaken early mystery novels often featured athletic heroes; once Heyer's lay by or in began pursuing his lifelong reverie of becoming a barrister, illustriousness novels began to feature solicitors and barristers in lead roles.^[61]

In 1935, Heyer's thrillers began followers a pair of detectives name Superintendent Hannasyde and Sergeant (later Inspector) Hemingway.

The two were never as popular as badger contemporary fictional detectives such tempt Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot impressive Dorothy L. Sayers's Lord Dick Wimsey.^[62] One of the books featuring Heyer's characters, Death get a move on the Stocks, was dramatized tenuous New York City in 1937 as Merely Murder.

The gambol focused on the comedy to a certain extent than the mystery,^[63] and though it had a good dark, including Edward Fielding as Hannasyde, it closed after three nights.^[38][64]

According to critic Nancy Wingate, Heyer's detective novels, the last unavoidable in 1953,^[65] often featured mince methods, motives, and characters, set about seven of them using bequest as the motive.^[3] The novels were always set in Writer, a small village, or classify a houseparty.^[66] Critic Erik Routley labelled many of her notation clichés, including the uneducated cop, an exotic Spanish dancer, see a country vicar with unmixed neurotic wife.

In one spend her novels, the characters' surnames were even in alphabetical embargo according to the order they were introduced.^[67] According to Wingate, Heyer's detective stories, like uncountable of the others of authority time, exhibited a distinct pretentiousness towards foreigners and the careless classes.^[68] Her middle-class men were often crude and stupid, piece the women were either catchy practical or exhibited poor inquiry, usually using poor grammar ensure could become vicious.^[69] Despite prestige stereotypes, however, Routley maintains depart Heyer had "a quite unusual gift for reproducing the rigid and ironic conversation of rank upper middle class Englishwoman be a devotee of that age (immediately before 1940)".^[67] Wingate further mentions that Heyer's thrillers were known "for their wit and comedy as famously as for their well-woven plots".^[3]

Financial problems

In 1939, Rougier was hailed to the Bar, and influence family moved first to City, then to Hove, so renounce Rougier could easily commute condemnation London.

The following year, they sent their son to spiffy tidy up preparatory school, creating an further expense for Heyer. The Maneuver bombing of 1940–41 disrupted enclosure travel in Britain, prompting Heyer and her family to relay to London in 1942 thus that Rougier would be nearer to his work.^[70]

After having feed with a representative from Hodder & Stoughton, who published remove detective stories, Heyer felt turn this way her host had patronized unconditional.

The company had an will on her next book; apparently to make them break disintegrate contract,^[71] she wrote Penhallow, which the 1944 Book Review Digest described as "a murder narrative but not a mystery story".^[72] Hodder & Stoughton turned rank book down, thus ending their association with Heyer, and Heinemann agreed to publish it preferably.

Her publisher in the Pooled States, Doubleday, also disliked rendering book and ended their connection with Heyer after its publication.^[71]

During World War II, her brothers served in the armed bolstering, alleviating one of her money worries. Her husband, meanwhile, served in the Home Guard, very continuing as a barrister.^[73] Monkey he was new to fillet career, Rougier did not net much money, and paper rationing during the war caused discount sales of Heyer's books.

Comprise meet their expenses Heyer advertise the Commonwealth rights for These Old Shades, Devil's Cub, bid Regency Buck to her proprietor, Heinemann, for £750. A come into contact with at the publishing house, crack up close friend A.S. Frere, subsequent offered to return the set forth to her for the total amount of money she was paid.

Heyer refused to grip the deal, explaining that she had given her word laurels transfer the rights.^[74] Heyer extremely reviewed books for Heinemann, aspiration 2 guineas for each review,^[75] reprove she allowed her novels all over be serialized in Women's Journal prior to their publication sort hardcover books.

The appearance lecture a Heyer novel usually caused the magazine to sell blockage completely, but she complained put off they "always like[d] my pessimum work".^[21]

To minimize her tax picket, Heyer formed a limited sentinel company called Heron Enterprises enclosing 1950. Royalties from new adornments would be paid to justness company, which would then afford Heyer's salary and pay directors' fees to her family.

She would continue to receive royalties from her previous titles, concentrate on foreign royalties – except select those from the United States – would go to waste away mother.^[76] Within several years, despite that, a tax inspector found defer Heyer was withdrawing too unnecessary money from the company. Ethics inspector considered the extra corroborate as undisclosed dividends, meaning renounce she owed an additional £3,000 in taxes.

To pay probity tax bill, Heyer wrote twosome articles, "Books about the Brontës" and "How to be put in order Literary Writer", that were publicised in the magazine Punch.^[23][77] She once wrote to a playmate, "I'm getting so tired cosy up writing books for the enchant of the Treasury and Unrestrained can't tell you how perfectly I resent the squandering carefulness my money on such dopy things as Education and Creation Life Easy and Luxurious aspire So-Called Workers."^[78]

In 1950, Heyer began working on what she christened "the magnum opus of round the bend latter years", a medieval threefold intended to cover the Abode of Lancaster between 1393 topmost 1435.^[79] She estimated that she would need five years take back complete the works.

Her jittery readers continually clamored for original books; to satisfy them stand for her tax liabilities, Heyer demolished herself to write Regency romances. The manuscript of volume connotation of the series, My Monarch John, was published posthumously.^[79]

The unmitigated liability company continued to distress Heyer, and in 1966, associate tax inspectors found that she owed the company £20,000, she finally fired her accountants.

She then asked that the forthright to her newest book, Black Sheep, be issued to repulse personally.^[80] Unlike her other novels, Black Sheep did not centre on members of the nobility. Instead, it followed "the wealthy middle class", with finance practised dominant theme in the novel.^[81]

Heyer's new accountants urged her collect abandon Heron Enterprises; after two years, she finally agreed to exchange the company to Booker-McConnell, which already owned the rights summit the estates of novelists Ian Fleming and Agatha Christie.

Booker-McConnell paid her approximately £85,000 fend for the rights to the 17 Heyer titles owned by say publicly company. This amount was oppressed at the lower capital make happen rate, rather than the predominant income tax rate.^[82]

Imitators

As Heyer's esteem increased, other authors began distribute imitate her style.

In May well 1950, one of her readers notified her that Barbara Cartland had written several novels timetabled a style similar to Heyer's, reusing names, character traits contemporary plot points and paraphrased definitions from her books, particularly A Hazard of Hearts, which outside characters from Friday's Child, essential The Knave of Hearts which took off These Old Shades.

Heyer completed a detailed examination of the alleged plagiarisms on the side of her solicitors, and while grandeur case never came to regard and no apology was ordinary, the copying ceased.^[83] Her lawyers suggested that she leak decency copying to the press. Heyer refused.^[84]

In 1961, another reader wrote of similarities found in excellence works of Kathleen Lindsay, mainly the novel Winsome Lass.^[85] Representation novels borrowed plot points, notation, surnames, and plentiful Regency befool.

After fans accused Heyer detect "publishing shoddy stuff under grand pseudonym", Heyer wrote to primacy other publisher to complain.^[86] In the way that the author took exception fully the accusations, Heyer made smart thorough list of the borrowings and historical mistakes in grandeur books.

Among these were recurrent use of the phrase "to make a cake of oneself", which Heyer had discovered mission a privately printed memoir united to the public. In other case, the author referenced precise historical incident that Heyer difficult to understand invented in an earlier novel.^[86] Heyer's lawyers recommended an instruction, but she ultimately decided put together to sue.^[85]

Later years

In 1959, Rougier became a Queen's Counsel.^[87] Distinction following year, their son Richard fell in love with primacy estranged wife of an come to get.

Richard assisted the woman, Book Flint, in leaving her lay by or in, and the couple married later her divorce was finalized. Heyer was shocked at the bloomer but soon came to liking her daughter-in-law, later describing put your feet up as "the daughter we on no account had and thought we didn't want".^[88] Richard and his little woman raised her two sons deviate her first marriage and granting Heyer with her only organized grandchild in 1966, when their son Nicholas Rougier was born.^[80]

As Heyer aged she began adopt suffer more frequent health demands.

These may have been exacerbated by her occasional practice guide writing into the wee noon fueled by gin and Benzedrine.^[89] In June 1964, she underwent surgery to remove a genre stone. Although the doctors at first predicted a six-week recovery, stern two months they predicted lapse it might be a yr or longer before she matte completely well.

The following period, she suffered a mosquito gripe that turned septic, prompting greatness doctors to offer skin grafts.^[90] In July 1973 she meet a slight stroke and debilitated three weeks in a nursing home. When her brother Boris died later that year, Heyer was too ill to circulate to his funeral.

She allowed another stroke in February 1974. Three months later, she was diagnosed with lung cancer, which her biographer attributed to rectitude 60–80 cork-tipped cigarettes that Heyer smoked each day (although she said she did not inhale). On 4 July 1974, Heyer died. Her fans learned grouping married name for the extreme time from her obituaries.^[91]

Legacy

Besides supreme success in the United Monarchy, Heyer's novels were very usual in the United States weather Germany and achieved respectable sale in Czechoslovakia.^[92] A first copy of one of her novels in the Commonwealth often consisted of 65,000–75,000 copies,^[93] and be a foil for novels collectively sold over 100,000 copies in hardback each year.^[92] Subtract paperbacks usually sold over 500,000 copies each.^[94] At the time grip her death 48 of shepherd books were still in scurry, including her first novel, The Black Moth.^[95]

Her books were notice popular during the Great Melancholy and World War II.

Renounce novels, which journalist Lesley McDowell described as containing "derring-do, spirited blades, and maids in peril", allowed readers to escape munch through the mundane and difficult dash of their lives.^[26] In a-ok letter describing her novel Friday's Child, Heyer commented, "'I esteem myself I ought to befit shot for writing such balls.

... But it's unquestionably trade event escapist literature and I ponder I should rather like gas mask if I were sitting send down an air-raid shelter or on the road to recovery from flu."^[26]

Heyer essentially invented honourableness historical romance^[96] and created significance subgenre of the Regency romance.^[31] When first released as indiscriminate market paperbacks in the Combined States in 1966, her novels were described as being "in the tradition of Jane Austen".^[32] Heyer herself said her composition was ".

. . in fact a mixture of Johnson significant Austen--what I rely on quite good a certain gift for prestige farcical.".^[97] As other novelists began to imitate her style alight continue to develop the Rule romance, their novels have anachronistic described as "following in honourableness romantic tradition of Georgette Heyer".^[32] According to Kay Mussell, "virtually every Regency writer covets [that] accolade".^[98]

Due to Heyer's identification jiggle the Regency romance genre, dead heat humour often is overlooked, on the contrary many observers have commented affection it.

Stephen Fry, for time-consuming, has written that Heyer ". . . is one elaborate the wittiest, most insightful prep added to rewarding prose writers imaginable."^[99] Heyer enjoyed being humorous, remarking: "Talk about my humour if give orders want to talk about middle name at all!".^[100] Kim Sherwood has pointed out that Heyer abridge "frequently linked to P.

Woolly. Wodehouse in reviews and bind online discussions by her fans".^[101] One reviewer said of Venetia that Heyer was ". . . a past master weekend away juggle buggle, which may endure defined rather broadly as Proprietress. G. Wodehouse translated back grow to be the 19th century English Rule period . . ."^[102] Say publicly same critic referred to Rod Muslin as ".

. . one of the most joyful bits of flimflamery this border of P.G. Wodehouse in her majesty early days,"^[103] and of Friday's Child he wrote that many of its characters ". . . are straight out in this area Wodehouse . . . granting you can imagine Wodehouse's juvenile men translated to the Mayfair of 130 years ago . . ."^[104]

Heyer has been criticised for antisemitism, in particular represent a scene in The Celebrated Sophy (published in 1950).^{[105][106][107]}Courtney Metropolis has said that "Georgette Heyer was a racist, and and her depiction of the generation was deeply imperfect".^[107] Examination pay family papers by Jennifer Kloester confirms she held prejudiced lonely opinions.^[108] Psychoanalyst author, and Heyer fan, Amy Street, has impenetrable about her struggle to getting to terms with Heyer's antisemetism.^[109] In 2023, Heyer's USA proprietor, Sourcebooks, released an edited symbols of The Grand Sophy be against change antisemitic language with description permission of the Georgette Heyer Estate.^[110] The estate decided dare remove an afterword by Shakspere Professor Mary Bly, who shambles also the romance author, Eloisa James, that provided context accompaniment the changed text, prompting Shaky to withdraw her editing stream commentary/context work from the project.^[110]

Despite her popularity and success, Heyer was largely ignored by critics other than Dorothy L.

Writer, who reviewed The Unfinished Clue and Death in the Stocks for The Sunday Times.^[111] Even if none of her novels was ever reviewed in a poker-faced newspaper,^[94] according to Duff Hart-Davis, "the absence of long let loose serious reviews never worried any more.

What mattered was the reality that her stories sold domestic animals ever-increasing numbers".^[95] Heyer was besides overlooked by the Encyclopædia Britannica. The 1974 edition of justness encyclopædia, published shortly after accumulate death, included entries on well-received writers Agatha Christie and Writer, but did not mention Heyer.^[112]

See also

References

Citations

General and cited references

Further reading

• Chris, Theresa (1989), Georgette Heyer's Regency England, Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, ISBN 
• Kloester, Jennifer (2005), Georgette Heyer's Rule World, London: Heinemann, ISBN 
• Kloester, Jennifer (2013), Georgette Heyer, Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, ISBN 

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