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‘Celebrating Georgette Heyer’ event wrap-up and poll

Posted in Blog Events, Celebrating Georgette Heyer, tagged , , , , , , , on 31 August 2010 | 41 Comments »

This marks the final post of the ‘Celebrating Georgette Heyer‘ event here at Austenprose. It has been a wonderful month of 34 book reviews of her romance novels, guest blogs, interviews and all out Heyer madness. I hope it chased away that fit of the blue-devils. A big thank you to each of the guest [...]

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Heyer’s Heroes: Immutable Romance Archetypes

Posted in Blog Events, Celebrating Georgette Heyer, tagged , , , , , , on 31 August 2010 | 58 Comments »

As the month-long Celebrating Georgette Heyer event draws to a close, we can look back through the thirty-four reviews of Heyer’s romance novels and see a common thread through each and every one. Her heroes are epitomes, nonpareils and nonesuches. In the Regency romance genre, they are a delight to read and an archetype for [...]

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Lady of Quality, by Georgette Heyer – A Review

Posted in Blog Events, Book Reviews, Celebrating Georgette Heyer, Georgette Heyer Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , on 31 August 2010 | 49 Comments »

Guest review by historical romance author Elizabeth Hanbury Lady of Quality was Georgette Heyer’s last book before her death in July 1974.  She suffered chronic ill-health in her later years and fractured her leg in a fall in January 1972.  Despite this, she began work on another book and by April had sent the outline [...]

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Charity Girl, by Georgette Heyer – A Review

Posted in Blog Events, Book Reviews, Celebrating Georgette Heyer, Georgette Heyer Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , on 30 August 2010 | 26 Comments »

Guest review by Dana Huff of Much Madness is Divinest Sense Georgette Heyer’s novel Charity Girl, originally published in 1970, is the story of Ashley Carrington, Viscount Desford’s entanglement with Charity “Cherry” Steane. Desford’s father wishes Desford, who is approaching thirty, had married family friend Henrietta Silverdale, known affectionately as Hetta, but Desford and Hetta [...]

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Cousin Kate, by Georgette Heyer – A Review

Posted in Blog Events, Book Reviews, Celebrating Georgette Heyer, Georgette Heyer Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , on 30 August 2010 | 29 Comments »

Guest review by Chris of book-a-rama Kate Malvern just lost her job as governess and is staying with her old nurse Sarah until she gets a new situation. Sarah doesn’t like the idea of her Kate, whose father was a gentleman despite being a soldier and a gambler, hiring herself out to anyone who asks. [...]

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Black Sheep, by Georgette Heyer – A Review

Posted in Blog Events, Book Reviews, Celebrating Georgette Heyer, Georgette Heyer Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , on 29 August 2010 | 32 Comments »

Guest review by Katherine of November’s Autumn Twenty-eight year old Abigail Wendover arrives home in Bath after having helped one of her sisters. The poor dear; all was an uproar at her home; all three children had the measles, the nurse fell down the back-stairs and broke her leg, and she’s due to have her [...]

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