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THE PRIVATE WORLD OF GEORGETTE HEYER PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Jane Aiken Hodge | 240 pages | 23 May 2006 | Cornerstone | 9780099493495 | English | London, United Kingdom The Private World of Georgette Heyer PDF Book She is everything and more. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Isokon Penguin Donkey: Pink. It is sad that she didn't appreciate her own work. She was the daughter of Conrad Aiken and sister of Joan Aiken. Even in the current climate of sex and violence, her books are still solidly on the shelves. Rating details. I have indulged myself, for the purposes of this book, in reading her entire output in chronological order and it has proved a rewarding experience as well as a delightful one. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Our membership is worldwide, but we still like to meet up - and many members travel thousands of miles to do so. A shy, sensitive girl, Georgette pronounced the French way was encouraged by her father to read and influenced by her storytelling grandfather. This book gives us an insightful look into Heyer's private world, everything from the fact that Barbosa was her favourite illustrator to how her husband would often collaborate with her on her detective novels. Rochester Mrs. Georgette Heyer. I learned that The Reluctant Widow was produced after one of her rare "blank years". Email required Address never made public. I last read this biography 23 years ago and as I am so familiar with Georgette Heyer's work it still felt like an old friend. She was also more careful about spoilers writing her analysis of GH's books. Her letters to her publishers, on the other hand, are part of the professional world she enjoyed, and unless otherwise indicated all the quotations in this book are from them. Please enter a valid email address. Learn how your comment data is processed. I'm planning an enjoyable summer! Please enter an email. About Jane Aiken Hodge. For many years she wrote a romance and a detective story each year. But your review makes me curious enough to think it will be a worthwhile read, despite its shortcomings style- and tone-wise. Jane Hodge. It's unlikely she would have cared a whit about my opi I don't usually like biographies very much. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. It has inspired me to want to read the historical books again in the order in which they were written. In that case, we can't To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Pictures, sketches, and illustrations of gowns, uniforms, carriages. Notify me of new posts via email. Although her Regency era novels are best-known, I enjoyed learning about her love of the medieval period. After her death her husband insisted that none of her stories "drew any of her characters from life" but that remains to be seen. Georgette Heyer loved to write about class, the relationships between men and women, appealing fiends, morals of the Regency era, and comedies of manners. Her real love was her histories. She was a private person who evidently had a great The Private World of Georgette Heyer Writer Heyer started her writing career when she in her teens and within a Georgette Heyer was a very private author and never gave any interviews throughout her long writing career. But she recognised this for experience she could not use. The emphasis shifts a little, too, from the dominating hero to the interesting heroine, and hero and heroine alike grow a little older with a younger couple often introduced to keep the balance. Biography Memoir. She was the main breadwinner for her mother and brothers after her father's death, and also in the first years of her marriage. She sharply demarcated that part of her life that was author from that part of her life that was wife and mother. Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who do so wish I would write another These Old Shades , it ought to sell like hot cakes. Botany and Books. Luckily for us and due to her need for the income, she continued to write them anyway. We should probably be grateful. Unfortunately, hardly any letters survive from before the s, when she herself was in her forties and had been a best-seller for years. After its heyday in the nineteenth century, the historical novel had fallen into disrepute in the early years of the twentieth, and this was particularly true when Georgette Heyer started to write. Thank you for the link. But good to know. I'd recommend this for anyone who loves Heyer's novels and can also separate the personality of the author from the novels of said author. She wrote mainly historical romances, but also historical fiction, thrillers, contemporary novels and one collection of short stories, fifty-seven works in all. Interesting insight into Georgette Heyer's writing life by Jane Aiken Hodge, based upon letters and interviews with her friends and family. Heyer and learn her life story. This is a must-have book for any Georgette Heyer lover. She voraciously read up about Napoleon and the time leading up to the Battle of Waterloo. Share at. She wrote more than fifty novels, yet her private life was inaccessible to any but her nearest friends and relatives. No heroine of hers would ever sit in a grass hut writing a novel. A monumental output for any author. She created her own private world in her Regency novels though she also wrote some very well regarded straight historical novels including 'An Infamous Army' which is set around the Battle of Waterloo and is considered one of the best accounts of the battle ever written. Georgette Heyer was one of the most popular and prolific writers of the twentieth century. This is a good biography, but will only be interesting to people who have read some of her books. No wonder if it infuriated her. I have one of the suppressed modern novels, Helen, which I bought at Goodwill ca for about 50 cents. They kept asking for swashbuckling romance when she was writing neat romantic comedy in the vein of Congreve and Sheridan. I read this to answer questions, for some insight and let's face it, I'm a bit nosy. The Private World of Georgette Heyer Reviews Details if other :. Penguin 85th by Vashti Harrison. She was deeply appalled by some of the resultant overly gaudy and inappropriate cover art and fulsomely inaccurate back cover blurbs; her indignation is recorded in some gloriously sarcastic letters to friends and probably slightly cringing editors. It was from a woman who had kept herself and her cell-mates sane through twelve years in a Romanian political prison by telling the story of Friday's Child over and over again. Her son went from Malborough to Cambridge and his mother's novels follow him. After its heyday in the nineteenth century, the historical novel had fallen into disrepute in the early years of the twentieth, and this was particularly true when Georgette Heyer started to write. It's rather startling to discover that she was not a very likeable person herself, considering herself on I'm so glad this has been rereleased. She was superb at creating regency stories full of manners and morals and what is more she enjoyed doing so. She saved a few reviews, and one fan letter. I'm so glad this has been rereleased. There are, to begin with, four early novels which she later suppressed. Heyer started her writing career when she in her teens and within a few years she was supporting her mother and brothers as well as her husband with her work. What a weird and interesting character she was. No wonder if it infuriated her. Naturally, it was the ravening fan public that made its voice most clearly heard during her lifetime, and its adulation served both to drive her further into herself and to put off readers who might have enjoyed her as they do Jane Austen or even Ivy Compton-Burnett , a favourite of hers. Browse our magazines. An extremely private person who never promoted her books publicly or granted an interview, Heyer was loved and respected by those she allowed into her personal life, but I felt that she appeared acerbic, condescending and unlikable in the pages of this book. There appear to have been no youthful scandals, no skeletons in the closet. They were married for almost fifty years. Not even all of the books, but primarily the best-known ones, the Regency-era dramatic romances, which stand head and shoulders above everything else Georgette Heyer produced, shading the historical dramas of various other eras, and the rather uneven mystery novels, which were published consistently in much smaller print runs, because they sold at a much more modest rate. There is a lot about the Battle of Waterloo in it, which some find tedious, but I found it fascinating and in fact it sent me off on a long tangent during which I read everything I could put my hands on about the battle, including first-hand accounts by soldiers and women hanging about in the vicinity, as they do in An Infamous Army. The unfinished work was published after her death as My Lord John. Fortunately she had a champion in A. For many years she wrote a romance and a detective story each year. Readers never th I must confess to only having read Georgette Heyer's detective books, not her regency ones, but this insight into her private world, which covers both her love of all things regency and her very private and protected private life, is magnificent.