Yet in historical novels he finds a sense of connectedness and integration. For stipendiary lecturer of plant biology, Timothy Walker, similar escapism can be found in regency romance by the likes of ...

Phillips points to another favorite love story: Devil’s Club by Georgette Heyer, a classic set during the Georgian period. Heyer “invented the Regency romance,” she says, “and this is one of her best ...

Georgette Heyer (1902–1974) was a British novelist best known for her contributions to the historical romance genre, particularly her Regency-era novels.

Romance books based in historical periods, like Jane Austen’s or Georgette Heyer’s Regency novels, already have the social norms and etiquette of the time acting as the obstacles – needing ...

Georgette Heyer’s Georgian and Regency romances have provided me — and several of my family members, both male and female — with many hours of enjoyment. I have read all of them, and I have reread ...

Her early love for Georgette Heyer’s novels led to a job at Mills and Boon and eventually to her own Regency romance writing.

O ften lauded as the mother of Regency romance, Georgette Heyer is widely considered a pioneer of the booming historical romance subgenre. From 1935 to 1974, Heyer published more than two dozen ...

The Bridgerton books are setting records in their streaming avatar. So, why hasn’t anyone filmed Georgette Heyer’s much better Regency romance novels yet?

British writer Georgette Heyer (1902-1974) had 51 novels in print when she died, with 50 million copies sold. Most were Regency romances.

This famous age of love and elaborate courtship has long captured the hearts of readers – from the enduring wit and entertainment of Jane Austen’s novels to the much-loved tales of Georgette ...