The International Heyer Society
Celebrating in the Literary Genius of Georgette Heyer
Author Heyer SocietyPosted on Last Friday, as part of her ongoing Heyer Legacy Project, Jen shared some insights on how Georgette spent her Christmas. Read all about it here. And catch up on Jen’s … Read More “Jennifer Kloester on Georgette’s Christmas”
Author Rachel HylandPosted on ALL ARABELLA COVER RATINGS PREVIOUS ARABELLA COVER What… what is this? Seriously, what? The Gone with the Wind-style dress, the bad (blonde, for some reason) perm, the coat that looks … Read More “Rating the Covers: Arabella, German (Erich Pabel, 1991)”
Author Heyer SocietyPosted on ‘Tis the season, as they say, and many of us are celebrating with more than one glass of good cheer. But what should we best call it when, after perhaps … Read More “POLL: Best Regency Word for “Drunk”?”
Author Rachel HylandPosted on In which we serialize Society Patroness Rachel Hyland’s first book in her Reading Heyer series, Reading Heyer: The Black Moth. Called “delicious” by Heyer expert Jennifer Kloester, it is a reading guide, critique … Read More “Reading Heyer: The Black Moth: Chapter XXIII”
Author Heyer SocietyPosted on AMAZON US | AU | UK VERY RARE Fully indexed collection of articles on the popular author’s works, addressing such subjects as “‘What Fun!’ Detection as Diversion”; “Georgette Heyer and … Read More “Georgette Heyer: A Critical Retrospective by Mary Fahnestock-Thomas (2001)”
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Author Heyer SocietyPosted on Last Friday, as part of her ongoing Heyer Legacy Project, Jen gave her thoughts on Jane Aiken Hodge’s 1985 biography The Private World of Georgette Heyer. Read all about it … Read More “Jennifer Kloester on The Private World of Georgette Heyer (1985)”
Author Rachel HylandPosted on ALL ARABELLA COVER RATINGS PREVIOUS ARABELLA COVER I really hate this one. It’s dull and doesn’t really make sense. Nice outfits on Beaumaris and Arabella, though. That blue velvet military-style … Read More “Rating the Covers: Arabella, German (Rowohlt, 1986)”
Author Heyer SocietyPosted on Many of Heyer’s heroines have stayed single well into their twenties, which stigmatized them as “spinsters” at the time. We get to see them relinquish their solitary existences throughout their … Read More “POLL: Favourite Heyer Spinster Heroine? Showdown”
Author Heyer SocietyPosted on This short story, later published in the anthology Pistols for Two (and more recently in the updated collection Snowdrift), first appeared in the UK magazine Woman’s Journal in 1936, and … Read More ““Runaway Match” by Georgette Heyer”