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Georgette Heyer


Born
in London, The United Kingdom
August 16, 1902

Died
July 04, 1974

Genre
Romance, Historical Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers


Georgette Heyer was a prolific historical romance and detective fiction novelist. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story for her younger brother into the novel The Black Moth.

In 1925 she married George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer. Rougier later became a barrister and he often provided basic plot outlines for her thrillers. Beginning in 1932, Heyer released one romance novel and one thriller each year.

Heyer was an intensely private person who remained a best selling author all her life without the aid of publicity. She made no appearances, never gave an interview and only answered fan letters herself if they made an interesting historical point. She wrote one novel using the pseudonym Stella Martin.

Her Georgian and ...more

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Arabella
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“As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.”
― Georgette Heyer, Venetia
tags: desires, promises
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“You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!”
― Georgette Heyer, Powder and Patch
tags: humor, men, thoughts, women
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“There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.”
― Georgette Heyer, Venetia
tags: unrequited-love
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Polls

February 2015 New School Classic Poll

1958, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, 209 pages
 
  10 votes, 18.5%

 
  9 votes, 16.7%

1957, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 304 pages
 
  7 votes, 13.0%

 
  6 votes, 11.1%

 
  5 votes, 9.3%

1956, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, 159 pages
 
  5 votes, 9.3%

1905, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, 351 pages
 
  4 votes, 7.4%

1921, The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer, 274 pages
 
  2 votes, 3.7%

1981, The Wave by Morton Rhue, 138 pages
 
  2 votes, 3.7%

 
  2 votes, 3.7%

1927, Ashenden by W. Somerset Maugham, 326 pages
 
  1 vote, 1.9%

1969, Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene, 254 pages
 
  1 vote, 1.9%

1955, Requiem for a Wren by Nevil Shute, 285 pages
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

54 total votes
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