![]() ![]() ![]() In the former the heroes wear wigs, make-up, jewels and high heels, and in the latter, they didn’t. And then there are the historical novels set in the mid 1700s to early 1800s, which can be separated into subsets of those set pre- and post-French Revolution. There are a couple of Norman and Tudor historical novels, again not relevant here. There are her detective novels published under her own name: again, not needed here. There are her contemporary, realist novels published under a pseudonym: I’m not concerned with those. Not so! Her novels can be grouped into four kinds. To those who haven’t read them, and simply judge them by their covers, from all their reprint phases, it might seem as if they are undifferentiated romantic slush in fancy dress. Georgette Heyer wrote a very large number of novels. Swordfights and petticoats from Georgette Heyer, the grande dame / mother superior of all things swashbuckling, in this week’s podcast scripts catch-up from Really Like This Book, with The Masqueraders, from 1928. ![]()
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