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FALSE COLOURS by Georgeffe Heyer. 317 pages. Dutton...
...Marston," the lady inquires of the butler, "has he been getting foxed often?" "Oh, no, ma'am! He has been dipping rather deep, perhaps." Exchanges like this, from the pages of Georgette Heyer's decorous novels, often fox the uninitiated reader...
...vast and steadily growing international legion of Georgette Heyer addicts, everything is as clear as Madeira. She is resorting again to the elegant Regency slang in which she has indefatigably chronicled the goings on of blooded Britons in the age when old King George III was too dotty to rule outright and his son, the Prince Regent, had not yet acceded to the title as George IV. What the butler means, obviously, is that his Lordship, while putting away a lot of the stuff, has been seldom if ever drunk...
Genteel Cult. By knowing more about Regency fops, rakes, routs and blades than anyone else alive, Georgette Heyer has turned what otherwise could be dismissed as a long series of sugary historical romances into a body of work that will probably be consulted by future scholars as the most detailed and accurate portrait of Regency life anywhere. She has also become the center of a genteel reading cult that has made her for years a runaway bestseller in England and now is spreading to the U.S., proliferating vociferously at ladies' luncheons and in lending libraries. But as with...
MARGARET D. HEYER...