Georgette Heyer (1902–1974)
Autor(a) de The Grand Sophy
About the Author
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 mais 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
Séries
Obras por Georgette Heyer
These Old Shades + Sprig Muslin + Sylvester + The Corinthian + The Convenient Marriage (1977) 31 exemplares
The Early Georgette Heyer Collection: The Transformation of Philip Jettan; The Black Moth; The Great Roxhythe; Instead… (2020) 7 exemplares
Great Historical Romances: The Talisman Ring + The Gambling Man + The King's Pleasure (1975) 5 exemplares
Georgette Heyer 4 exemplares
Friday's Child 3 exemplares
Georgette Heyer Collection 10 Books Set (Devil's Cub, Venetia, Cotillion, The Grand Sophy, Frederica, April Lady,… (2004) 2 exemplares
Caridad 1 exemplar
Delitto con replica (Il Giallo Mondadori) 1 exemplar
Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer (Dec 1 2009) 1 exemplar
Una ragazza adorabile 1 exemplar
Regency Buck (Alastair-Audley Book 3) 1 exemplar
Royal Escape / Black Sheep / A Blunt Instrument / Regency Buck / Envious Casca / The Corinthian (1980) 1 exemplar
The Quiet Gentleman / The Reluctant Widow / Sylvester / The Toll-Gate / The Unknown Ajax / Faro's Daughter / The… (1951) 1 exemplar
Pistols for Two + Hazard 1 exemplar
Fantasmas do Passado 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Heyer, Georgette
- Nome legal
- Rougier, Georgette Heyer
- Outros nomes
- Martin, Stella
- Data de nascimento
- 1902-08-16
- Data de falecimento
- 1974-07-04
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Wimbledon, London, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- London, England, UK
- Causa da morte
- lung cancer
- Locais de residência
- England, UK
Wimbledon, England, UK
Paris, France
Tanganyika
Macedonia - Educação
- Royal College of Music
- Ocupações
- novelist
historical novelist
crime novelist - Relações
- Oman, Carola (friend)
Rougier, George Ronald (husband)
Heyer, George (father) - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Blue Plaque
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- 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.
Membros
Discussions
OT: Heyer censored em Folio Society Devotees (Ontem 9:57am)
Georgette Heyer - Frederica em Folio Society Devotees (Setembro 8)
Found: Victorian era woman comes into her own em Name that Book (Agosto 2021)
BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE - JUNE 2017 - HEYER & SCHAMA em 75 Books Challenge for 2017 (Outubro 2017)
Read GEORGETTE HEYER in June em 2014 Category Challenge (Julho 2014)
FREDERICA - Group Read - SPOILERS POSSIBLE em 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (Março 2014)
Can't remember the names of these books em Name that Book (Agosto 2013)
Bujold fan looking for a Georgette Heyer introduction em Almack's (Julho 2013)
Georgette Heyer em Cozy Mysteries (Dezembro 2012)
January 2012: Georgette Heyer em Monthly Author Reads (Março 2012)
Fantasy casting: Frederica em Almack's (Maio 2010)
Heyer Discussion: [Friday's Child] em 75 Books Challenge for 2009 (Fevereiro 2010)
Historicals em Almack's (Janeiro 2010)
Adaptations? em Almack's (Dezembro 2009)
Reluctant Widow film adaptation em Almack's (Dezembro 2009)
Music in Heyer em Almack's (Novembro 2009)
Heyer, No Wind of Blame, rev. jimroberts em Reviews reviewed (Setembro 2009)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 126
- Also by
- 5
- Membros
- 71,281
- Popularidade
- #178
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 2,479
- ISBN
- 2,068
- Línguas
- 16
- Marcado como favorito
- 349
- Acerca
- 14
- Pedras de toque
- 2,799