The Nonesuch

Used to love Georgette Heyer's Regency novels as a teenager.

She was inspired by the writings of Jane Austen.

Determined to make her novels as accurate as possible, Heyer collected reference works and research materials to use while writing. At the time of her death she owned over 1,000 historical reference books, including Debrett's and an 1808 dictionary of the House of Lords...

Georgette Heyer was born in Wimbledon, London, in 1902. She was named after her father, George Heyer.. Her mother, Sylvia Watkins, studied both cello and piano and was one of the top three students in her class at the Royal College of Music. Heyer's paternal grandfather had emigrated from Russia, while her maternal grandparents owned tugboats on the River Thames.

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