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Author Heyer SocietyPosted on December 8, 2020October 13, 2020

POLL: Favourite Heyer Spinster Heroine? Round 1

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? Round 1”

Author Jennifer KloesterPosted on December 7, 2020October 21, 2020No comment Heyer for Austenites: If You Love Northanger Abbey…

Heyer for Austenites: If You Love Northanger Abbey…

INTRODUCTION Fans of Austen’s Northanger Abbey (1817) will likely enjoy Heyer’s own take on the Gothic parody in The Reluctant Widow (1946). An early Heyer Regency, she has her tongue … Read More “Heyer for Austenites: If You Love Northanger Abbey…”

Author Heyer SocietyPosted on August 25, 2020October 13, 2020

POLL: Favourite Heyer Working Woman?

While several of Heyer’s heroines are bordering on penniless, only a very few actually work for a living, the times being what they were and opportunities for such being scarce. … Read More “POLL: Favourite Heyer Working Woman?”

Author Heyer SocietyPosted on August 4, 2020June 30, 2020

POLL: Best Heyer Marriage of Convenience Novel?

When love blooms after a marriage most practical, often due to proximity and shared experience, it is can be one of the romance world’s most glorious tropes. (Except when it isn’t.) … Read More “POLL: Best Heyer Marriage of Convenience Novel?”

Author Heyer SocietyPosted on July 28, 2020October 13, 2020

POLL: Favourite Heyer Governess

Ah, governesses! What would Regency romance be without them? Georgette Heyer began the trend, of course (as with so many others) with her inclusion of more than one variety of … Read More “POLL: Favourite Heyer Governess”

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