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...cult has grown up around Georgette Heyer's regency romances. Its members are secret addicts who, when pressed, will admit shamefacedly that, yes, they do read Heyer. It takes some courage: A regency romance--and Heyer holds undisputed title of queen of the genre--has neither the suspense of a good spy story or the nose-to-the-ground clue-tracking of a murder mystery, and has no social significance whatsoever. Heyer deals exclusively with the frivolous world of England's Upper Ten Thousand at the turn of the nineteenth century, and any similarity between the world of social conventions...
...Oxford Anecdotes would be nice, plus a copy of Dr. Doolittle. And Georgette Heyer's Lord John--you haven't heard of Georgette Heyer? You must come in my office and let me educate...
...Conclusions, with the composer still eating crayfish "at an alarming rate," but this time in Paris. "For some of us," wrote the Times's music critic Donal Henahan, "Robert Craft has dissipated his credibility as historian and biographer, though he may still command our admiration as the Georgette Heyer or Thomas B. Costain of musical history...
...fair sample. It is larded with arcane phrases like "tip him a settler" (knock him out), epithets like "nipcheese" (a parsimonious person), verbs like "fadge" (to make sense). Male characters do not dress; they are accoutered, like Achilles, in the armor prescribed by Beau Brummel, who, as every Heyer reader knows, not only taught Englishmen to wash, wear clean linen and conservatively cut clothes, but invented a boot polish with a special magic ingredient-vintage champagne. Its plot is frothy and prolix. Charles Fancot, the second son of now-defunct Lord Denville, comes home to London, after helping his uncle...
...Heyer Learning. No one is sure how Georgette Heyer acquired her knowledge. It is known that in real life she is married to a London lawyer named Richard Rougier, inhabits a stylish Albany apartment stuffed with Regency antiques. But she grants no interviews, does not help promote her books and, in a slender official biography, admits only to having been educated "at various schools." A friend explains, "She's just learned without being academic-a thing we have in England." Serious critics dismiss her writing as nothing but "a jolly good read," except for The Infamous Army, which...