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2. List of works by Georgette Heyer - Wikipedia

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   Georgette Heyer (1902–1974) was an English author particularly known for her historical romance novels set in the Regency and Georgian eras.A best-selling author, Heyer's writing career saw her produce works from a variety of genres; in total she published 32 novels in the romance genre, 6 historical novels, 4 contemporary novels, and 12 in the detective fiction genre.

3. The Unknown Ajax - Wikipedia

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   A comedy of class consciousness. The Unknown Ajax was written by Heyer after a holiday in Rye, a town which features in the novel and is the nearest to the fictional Darracott estate. Hugo Darracott she described in a letter as a completely new kind of hero from her usual stock characters – types satirised here in the brothers Vincent and ...

4. Regency Buck - Wikipedia

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   Regency Buck is a novel written by Georgette Heyer.It has three distinctions: it is the first of her novels to deal with the Regency period; it is one of only a few to combine both genres for which she was noted, the Regency romance and the mystery novel; and it is the only one of her Regency stories to feature Beau Brummell as an actual character, rather than as someone merely mentioned in ...

5. The Nonesuch - Wikipedia

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   Plot summary. Sir Waldo Hawkridge, known in London society as 'the Nonesuch' for his sporting abilities and perfect manners, is obliged to go into Yorkshire to inspect a property that he has just inherited. Sir Waldo is a very wealthy and philanthropic man, and intends to renovate the house to turn it into yet another of his charity orphanages.

6. Georgette Heyer - Wikipedia

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   Regency romance. detective fiction. Spouse. George Ronald Rougier. . . (m. 1925) . Georgette Heyer (/ ˈheɪ.ər /; 16 August 1902 – 4 July 1974) was an English novelist and short-story writer, in both the Regency romance and detective fiction genres. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story conceived for her ailing younger ...

7. Frederica (novel) - Wikipedia

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   Frederica is a Regency romance novel by Georgette Heyer.The story is set in 1818. [1] The plot is typical of several later Heyer romances in counterpointing the courtships of an older and a younger couple, with variation provided by the antics of Frederica's younger brothers and their boisterous mongrel.

8. The Reluctant Widow - Wikipedia

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   The Reluctant Widow is a 1946 Regency romance by Georgette Heyer, published by Heinemann in the UK, and by Putnam the following year in the US. [1] A humorous parody of a Gothic novel, it is set in early 1813. [2] It was published with the description "By midnight she is a bride, by dawn a widow", [3] and with gouache artwork by Philip Gough.

9. Lord of Scoundrels - Wikipedia

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   Lord of Scoundrels. Lord of Scoundrels is a Regency romance novel by American author Loretta Chase. Published in 1995 by Avon Books, it is the third installment of her Débauchés series. Set in 1828, the story follows the Marquess of Dain, an aristocrat known as "Lord Beelzebub " and the "Lord of Scoundrels" for his unscrupulous, immoral behavior.