Georgette Heyer
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Georgette Heyer was an English novelist and short-story writer, in both the Regency romance and detective fiction genres. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story conceived for her ai
Heyer, c. 1921
Heyer claimed that every word uttered by The Duke of Wellington in her novel An Infamous Army was spoken or written by him in real life.
William the Conqueror, depicted in this statue on the West Front of Lichfield Cathedral, was featured in Heyer's first novel of historical fiction.
Edmund Blair Leighton painted On the Threshold (of a Proposal), now in Manchester Art Gallery. It depicts a courtship in Regency England, similar to those described in Heyer's historical romances.
The Black Moth
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The Black Moth is a Georgian era romance novel by the British author Georgette Heyer, set around 1751. The Black Moth was Heyer's debut novel, published when Heyer was nineteen. It was a commercial su
Georgette Heyer
…romance and detective fiction genres. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story conceived for her ailing younger brother into the novel The Black Moth. In 1925 Heyer married George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer. The couple spent several years living in Tanganyika Territory and Macedonia before…
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