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Georgette Heyer (1902–1974)

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Georgette Heyer was born on August 16, 1902 at Wimbledon, London. She wrote The Black Moth as a story for her brother Boris. Her father, impressed with his daughter's imagination, suggested that she prepare it to be published, which it was by Constable in 1921. Having scored an instant success with toon meer The Black Moth at the age of nineteen under her own name, Georgette Heyer, she experimented with a pseudonym, Stella Martin, for her third book, published by Mills & Boon. She continued writing and in 1925 she married Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer. After reasonable but not spectacular sales from her first few books the instant success of These Old Shades in 1926 brought her a solid source of income which was very necessary at the time since the family relied to a large extent on the income from Georgette Heyer's writing. She wrote over fifty books during her lifetime and created the Regency England genre of romance novels. She died on July 4, 1974 at the age of 71. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

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Sophie, een liefde zonder angst (1950) 2,965 exemplaren
Frederica (1965) 2,391 exemplaren
These Old Shades (1926) 2,365 exemplaren
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Venetia (1958) 2,156 exemplaren
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De vrolijke vrijster (1972) 1,708 exemplaren
Amor en de erfgenaam (1962) 1,697 exemplaren
Regency Buck (1935) 1,658 exemplaren
Faro's Daughter (1941) 1,637 exemplaren
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Black Sheep (1966) 1,620 exemplaren
The Corinthian (1940) 1,618 exemplaren
The Black Moth (1921) 1,604 exemplaren
De weerspannige weduwe (1946) 1,571 exemplaren
The Masqueraders (1928) 1,563 exemplaren
The Talisman Ring (1936) 1,555 exemplaren
The Quiet Gentleman (1951) 1,520 exemplaren
The Unknown Ajax (1959) 1,513 exemplaren
Bath Tangle (1955) 1,496 exemplaren
False Colours (1963) 1,462 exemplaren
A Civil Contract (1961) 1,458 exemplaren
Sprig Muslin (1956) 1,420 exemplaren
The Foundling (1948) 1,410 exemplaren
Cousin Kate (1968) 1,389 exemplaren
The Toll-Gate (1954) 1,345 exemplaren
Charity Girl (1970) 1,308 exemplaren
April Lady (1957) 1,192 exemplaren
Powder and Patch (1923) — Pseudonym, sommige edities1,177 exemplaren
An Infamous Army (1937) 1,177 exemplaren
Why Shoot A Butler? (1933) 1,012 exemplaren
Footsteps in the Dark (1932) 985 exemplaren
Beauvallet (1929) 979 exemplaren
Het lijk in het schandblok (1935) 969 exemplaren
Envious Casca (1941) 965 exemplaren
Behold, Here's Poison (1936) 902 exemplaren
Moord kost tijd (1938) 867 exemplaren
They Found Him Dead (1937) 856 exemplaren
The Unfinished Clue (1934) 833 exemplaren
De Spaanse bruid (1940) 830 exemplaren
No Wind of Blame (1939) 830 exemplaren
Pistols for Two (1960) 794 exemplaren
Detection Unlimited (1953) 776 exemplaren
Duplicate Death (1951) 747 exemplaren
Penhallow (1942) 650 exemplaren
The Conqueror (1931) 626 exemplaren
My Lord John (1975) 574 exemplaren
Simon the Coldheart (1925) 566 exemplaren
Royal Escape (1938) 558 exemplaren
Snowdrift and Other Stories (2016) 163 exemplaren
The Great Roxhythe (1923) 108 exemplaren
Pastel (1929) 59 exemplaren
Lady of Quality + Charity Girl (2010) 51 exemplaren
Instead of the Thorn (1923) — Pseudonym, sommige edities50 exemplaren
Helen (1928) 48 exemplaren
Barren Corn (1930) 46 exemplaren
April Lady + Pistols for Two (1998) 38 exemplaren
Venetia [abridged] (2010) 33 exemplaren
Sylvester [abridged] (2009) 28 exemplaren
Devil's Cub + False Colours (1966) 21 exemplaren
Arabella + The Corinthian (2005) 15 exemplaren
Pursuit [short story] (1939) 8 exemplaren
These Old Shades/Devil's Cub (2004) 6 exemplaren
Full Moon (Short-Story) (1948) 6 exemplaren
Georgette Heyer 4 exemplaren
Runaway Match (Short-Story) (1936) 4 exemplaren
Night at the Inn (Short-Story) (1960) 3 exemplaren
Lady, Your Pardon (Short-Story) (1937) 3 exemplaren
The Little Lady [short story] (2019) 2 exemplaren
Georgette Heyer Compendium (1984) 2 exemplaren
Devil's Cub + Regency Buck (1999) 1 exemplaar
Black Sheep + The Grand Sophy (1900) 1 exemplaar
Pistols for Two [short story] (1960) 1 exemplaar
Bath Miss (Short-Story) (1960) 1 exemplaar
Pink Domino (Short-Story) (1960) 1 exemplaar
The Duel (Short-Story) (1960) 1 exemplaar
Hazard [short story] (1960) 1 exemplaar
Snowdrift (Short-Story) (1960) 1 exemplaar

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Algemene kennis

Gangbare naam
Heyer, Georgette
Officiële naam
Rougier, Georgette Heyer
Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
Martin, Stella
Geboortedatum
1902-08-16
Overlijdensdatum
1974-07-04
Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
UK
Geboorteplaats
Wimbledon, London, England, UK
Plaats van overlijden
London, England, UK
Oorzaak van overlijden
lung cancer
Woonplaatsen
England, UK
Wimbledon, England, UK
Paris, France
Tanganyika
Macedonia
Opleiding
Royal College of Music
Beroepen
novelist
historical novelist
crime novelist
Relaties
Oman, Carola (friend)
Rougier, George Ronald (husband)
Heyer, George (father)
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
Blue Plaque
Korte biografie
Georgette Heyer wrote meticulously researched historical-romance novels, specializing in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth-century, and was most famous for her Regency novels. She lived a sheltered childhood and at age 17, created a serial story to amuse her brother Boris, who was ill; their father asked her to prepare it for publication and his agent found a publisher for it -- this became The Black Moth (1921), about a disgraced young aristocrat who becomes a highwayman. According to Georgette Heyer's biographer Jane Aiken Hodge, that first novel contained many of the elements that would become standard for Heyer's works, the "saturnine male lead, the marriage in danger, the extravagant wife, and the group of idle, entertaining young men." Beginning in 1932, Heyer released one romance novel and one detective thriller each year. Her books were highly popular both in the UK and the USA and she remains an enduring international bestseller, read and loved by four generations of readers.

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Discussies

OT: Heyer censored in Folio Society Devotees (november 2023)
Georgette Heyer - Frederica in Folio Society Devotees (september 2023)
Found: Victorian era woman comes into her own in Name that Book (augustus 2021)
BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE - JUNE 2017 - HEYER & SCHAMA in 75 Books Challenge for 2017 (oktober 2017)
Read GEORGETTE HEYER in June in 2014 Category Challenge (juli 2014)
FREDERICA - Group Read - SPOILERS POSSIBLE in 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (maart 2014)
Can't remember the names of these books in Name that Book (augustus 2013)
Georgette Heyer in Cozy Mysteries (december 2012)
January 2012: Georgette Heyer in Monthly Author Reads (maart 2012)
Fantasy casting: Frederica in Almack's (mei 2010)
Heyer Discussion: [Friday's Child] in 75 Books Challenge for 2009 (februari 2010)
Historicals in Almack's (januari 2010)
Adaptations? in Almack's (december 2009)
Reluctant Widow film adaptation in Almack's (december 2009)
Music in Heyer in Almack's (november 2009)
Heyer, No Wind of Blame, rev. jimroberts in Reviews reviewed (september 2009)

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Heyer's historical novels are perfect summer holiday reading. I keep two of her romances as my favorites in my bookcase, and I reread them once in the ten years, because I still enjoy this form of escape literature; a happy ending in a make believe romance world. In the words of A.S. Byatt, Sophy is a typical Heyer heroine. "A lively resourceful girl (...) with natural moral taste". And her cousin Charles, large and good looking, with keen intelligence hidden under sometimes a heartless, but amused approach. And she write in very good historical detail about the conventions and habits of daily family life in the Regency society period (between 1795 and 1837), and she does it " with good taste", as to quote A.S. Byatt again from her essay "An Honourable escape: Georgette Heyer".… (meer)
 
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Statistieken

Werken
122
Ook door
6
Leden
72,024
Populariteit
#176
Waardering
3.9
Besprekingen
2,500
ISBNs
2,070
Talen
16
Favoriet
351

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