Georgette Heyer Biography

Georgette Heyer Biography

Summary

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The perfect accompaniment to the definitive new editions of Georgette Heyer's celebrated novels that are currently being reissued.

A remarkable biography of one of Britain's best-loved and best-selling novelists, 'the queen of Regency romance'.

Georgette Heyer remains an enduring international bestseller, read and loved by four generations of readers and extolled by today's bestselling authors. Despite her enormous popularity she never gave an interview or appeared in public. Georgette Heyer wrote her first novel, The Black Moth, when she was seventeen in order to amuse her convalescent brother. It was published in 1921 to instant success and it has never been out of print.

A phenomenon even in her own lifetime, to this day she is the undisputed queen of regency romance.

During ten years of research into Georgette Heyer's life and writing, Jennifer Kloester has had unlimited access to Heyer's notebooks and private papers and the Heyer family records, and exclusive access to several untapped archives of Heyer's early letters.

Reviews

  • An engaging portrait of a novelist beloved of four generations. A must for those wishing to explore the life of the queen of Regency romance.
    Daily Express, 4/5 stars

About the author

Jennifer Kloester

Jennifer Kloester was born in Melbourne, Australia. During the extensive study and research of Georgette Heyer's work for her Ph. D thesis, Jennifer had access to Heyer's private papers and other information made available through the generosity of Georgette Heyer's son and, as a result has discovered a wealth of new material on a person who is known to be an immensely private writer.
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