6/27/2023 0 Comments Regency buck author![]() Heyer wrote for an audience unfamiliar with the Regency, for whom it was a time before all memory or familiarity. Absent are mentions of sprig muslin and poke bonnets, with coats made by Weston and boots polished until they gleam. As such, she has no need of the level of detail, the minute attention to dress, manners and turns of phrase that are the particular calling card of Georgette Heyer. ![]() The world crafted inside Jane Austen’s pages is that of an author familiar with its nuances and rhythms. As an outsider describing an unfamiliar world she needed to observe quirks, trends and details that the insider has no need of. But, where Jane looked at that world ensconced in the bubble of contemporaneity Georgette looked it through the crystal ball of hindsight. Of course, Heyer took her cues from that other grand name associated with Regency England Jane Austen. Georgette Heyer defined a genre in a way that no other author has since, she created a blueprint for the historical romance, a set of rules almost, that is still being adhered to today. ![]() Maybe it was just a perfectionist desire to ‘get things right’ but nearly a century on her novels still define the genre which has grown far past those pages which make up Regency Buck. Anyone who puts as much attention to detail into her novels as she did has to have a master plan. ![]() ![]() 80 years ago when a young Georgette Heyer sat down to write her first, and arguably the world’s first, Regency Romance: Regency Buck I like to think she knew exactly what she was doing. ![]()
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