Georgette Heyer (1902–1974)
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Georgette Heyer was born on August 16, 1902 at Wimbledon, London. She wrote The Black Moth as a story for her brother Boris. Her father, impressed with his daughter's imagination, suggested that she prepare it to be published, which it was by Constable in 1921. Having scored an instant success with mehr anzeigen The Black Moth at the age of nineteen under her own name, Georgette Heyer, she experimented with a pseudonym, Stella Martin, for her third book, published by Mills & Boon. She continued writing and in 1925 she married Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer. After reasonable but not spectacular sales from her first few books the instant success of These Old Shades in 1926 brought her a solid source of income which was very necessary at the time since the family relied to a large extent on the income from Georgette Heyer's writing. She wrote over fifty books during her lifetime and created the Regency England genre of romance novels. She died on July 4, 1974 at the age of 71. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Heyer, Georgette
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Rougier, Georgette Heyer
- Andere Namen
- Martin, Stella
- Geburtstag
- 1902-08-16
- Todestag
- 1974-07-04
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- UK
- Geburtsort
- Wimbledon, London, England, UK
- Sterbeort
- London, England, UK
- Todesursache
- lung cancer
- Wohnorte
- England, UK
Wimbledon, England, UK
Paris, France
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- Royal College of Music
- Berufe
- novelist
historical novelist
crime novelist - Beziehungen
- Oman, Carola (friend)
Rougier, George Ronald (husband)
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- Kurzbiographie
- Georgette Heyer wrote meticulously researched historical-romance novels, specializing in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth-century, and was most famous for her Regency novels. She lived a sheltered childhood and at age 17, created a serial story to amuse her brother Boris, who was ill; their father asked her to prepare it for publication and his agent found a publisher for it -- this became The Black Moth (1921), about a disgraced young aristocrat who becomes a highwayman. According to Georgette Heyer's biographer Jane Aiken Hodge, that first novel contained many of the elements that would become standard for Heyer's works, the "saturnine male lead, the marriage in danger, the extravagant wife, and the group of idle, entertaining young men." Beginning in 1932, Heyer released one romance novel and one detective thriller each year. Her books were highly popular both in the UK and the USA and she remains an enduring international bestseller, read and loved by four generations of readers.
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