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 mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
Series
Obras de Georgette Heyer
These Old Shades + Sprig Muslin + Sylvester + The Corinthian + The Convenient Marriage (1977) 32 copias
The Early Georgette Heyer Collection: The Transformation of Philip Jettan; The Black Moth; The Great Roxhythe; Instead… (2020) 7 copias
Great Historical Romances: The Talisman Ring + The Gambling Man + The King's Pleasure (1975) 6 copias
Georgette Heyer 4 copias
Acting on Impulse [short story] 4 copias
Georgette Heyer Collection 10 Books Set (Devil's Cub, Venetia, Cotillion, The Grand Sophy, Frederica, April Lady,… (2004) 2 copias
Una ragazza adorabile 1 copia
Intrighi al castello 1 copia
Royal Escape / Black Sheep / A Blunt Instrument / Regency Buck / Envious Casca / The Corinthian (1980) 1 copia
The Quiet Gentleman / The Reluctant Widow / Sylvester / The Toll-Gate / The Unknown Ajax / Faro's Daughter / The… (1951) 1 copia
Pistols for Two + Hazard 1 copia
Fantasmas do Passado 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Heyer, Georgette
- Nombre legal
- Rougier, Georgette Heyer
- Otros nombres
- Martin, Stella
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1902-08-16
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1974-07-04
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Wimbledon, London, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- London, England, UK
- Causa de fallecimiento
- lung cancer
- Lugares de residencia
- England, UK
Wimbledon, England, UK
Paris, France
Tanganyika
Macedonia - Educación
- Royal College of Music
- Ocupaciones
- novelist
historical novelist
crime novelist - Relaciones
- Oman, Carola (friend)
Rougier, George Ronald (husband)
Heyer, George (father) - Premios y honores
- Blue Plaque
- Biografía breve
- 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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Debates
OT: Heyer censored en Folio Society Devotees (noviembre 2023)
Georgette Heyer - Frederica en Folio Society Devotees (septiembre 2023)
Found: Victorian era woman comes into her own en Name that Book (agosto 2021)
BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE - JUNE 2017 - HEYER & SCHAMA en 75 Books Challenge for 2017 (octubre 2017)
Read GEORGETTE HEYER in June en 2014 Category Challenge (julio 2014)
FREDERICA - Group Read - SPOILERS POSSIBLE en 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (marzo 2014)
Can't remember the names of these books en Name that Book (agosto 2013)
Bujold fan looking for a Georgette Heyer introduction en Almack's (julio 2013)
Georgette Heyer en Cozy Mysteries (diciembre 2012)
January 2012: Georgette Heyer en Monthly Author Reads (marzo 2012)
Fantasy casting: Frederica en Almack's (mayo 2010)
Heyer Discussion: [Friday's Child] en 75 Books Challenge for 2009 (Febrero 2010)
Historicals en Almack's (enero 2010)
Adaptations? en Almack's (diciembre 2009)
Reluctant Widow film adaptation en Almack's (diciembre 2009)
Music in Heyer en Almack's (noviembre 2009)
Heyer, No Wind of Blame, rev. jimroberts en Reviews reviewed (septiembre 2009)
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