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Venetia, by Georgette Heyer – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Georgette Heyer Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , on 29 May 2011 | 15 Comments »

Guest review by Laura Wallace “I know!  She was the delightful creature who cut up her brother, and cast the pieces in her papa’s way, wasn’t she?  I daresay perfectly amiable when one came to know her.” —Venetia on Medea. Venetia is about soul mates.  Two people who, despite completely dissimilar life experiences, recognize in [...]

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Venetia, by Georgette Heyer – A Review

Posted in Blog Events, Book Reviews, Celebrating Georgette Heyer, Georgette Heyer Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , on 23 August 2010 | 59 Comments »

One of Georgette Heyer’s most beloved novels, Venetia is set in the countryside of the North Riding of Yorkshire three years after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Its eponymous heroine Venetia Lanyon is not your conventional Heyer Regency Miss. Unmarried at age twenty-five she has never been in love, is close to being on [...]

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Winner announced in the Venetia giveaway!

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on 13 April 2010 | 4 Comments »

Congratulations goes out to Felicia our lucky winner of one copy of Venetia, by Georgette Heyer and read by Richard Armitage. To claim your prize please email me at austenprose at verizon dot net with your full name and address by Monday, April 19, 2010. CD shipment within continental US, digital download internationally. Enjoy! Read my [...]

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Venetia, by Georgette Heyer, read by Richard Armitage (Naxos AudioBooks): A Review & Giveaway

Posted in Audio Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Georgette Heyer Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , on 6 April 2010 | 53 Comments »

Did you know that Georgette Heyer is British author and literary critic Margaret Drabble’s favorite historical novelist? I know! High praise from an author who has written eighteen novels, introductions to all of Jane Austen’s major and minor works, been awarded a Doctorate in Letters from Cambridge University and the CBE and DBE by the [...]

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