![]() ![]() Heyer has been the subject of a biography once before, by Jane Aiken Hodge in 1984, 10 years after Heyer's death at the age of 71. Clever people like the way Heyer makes the Regency sound real, goes light on the love stuff and rattles along at the pace of a mail coach that is determined to beat its own record: she is like Jane Austen but without the boring bits, of which there are more than most of us care to remember. ![]() AS Byatt said so in a piece in a 1969 edition of Nova and, like Somervell, finds herself trotted out as proof that Heyer is different from Catherine Cookson or Barbara Cartland. Professional men and clever women have always lined up to say just how much they relish Heyer's world of rakes, pistols at dawn and spirited heroines with a penchant for cross-dressing. ![]() Quite apart from having a name that makes him sound as though he had stepped straight from one of Heyer's Regency romances, Somervell was inadvertently providing an anecdote that would get recycled over the years whenever someone wanted to show just how different Heyer was from the normal run of popular historical novelists. I n 1960 the Attorney General, Lord Somervell, left his entire Georgette Heyer collection to the Inner Temple Library. ![]()
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