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Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle, by Georgette Heyer – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Georgette Heyer Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , on 23 April 2011 | 16 Comments »

Guest review by Laura A. Wallace a musician, attorney, and writer living in Southeast Texas.  She is a devotee of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer and is the author of British Titles of Nobility:  An Introduction and Primer to the Peerage (1998). Our hero is 28, wealthy, with vast estates and dependents, and head of [...]

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Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle, by Georgette Heyer – A Review

Posted in Blog Events, Book Reviews, Celebrating Georgette Heyer, Georgette Heyer Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , on 23 August 2010 | 39 Comments »

Originally published in 1957, Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle is one of Georgette Heyer’s more popular Regency Romance novels. Its protagonist (or maybe antagonist) is the wealthy, arrogant and pragmatic Sylvester Rayne, the Duke of Salford. In his twenty-eighth year he has taken it upon himself to marry, much to the surprise of his mother, [...]

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Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle, by Georgette Heyer, as Read by Richard Armitage – A Review

Posted in Audio Book Reviews, Georgette Heyer Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , on 16 August 2009 | 14 Comments »

Today, August 16th is author Georgette Heyer’s birthday. In celebration of the uncontested Queen of Regency Romance, I thought it quite fitting to read one of her novels this week and review it. However, what I ultimately selected was not based on a plot, or characters, or a recommendation by other Heyer aficionados such as Vic [...]

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