Celebrating Georgette Heyer

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Celebrating Georgette HeyerIn honor of Georgette Heyer’s birthday on August 16, Laurel Ann of Austenprose is hosting a month-long celebration of Heyer’s work. Yours truly is participating with a review of Charity Girl, which will be my first Heyer read. Please join us at Laurel Ann’s for the festivities.

In other book-related news this week, on this date in 1054, Siward, Earl of Northumbria, invaded Scotland to aid Malcolm Canmore against Macbeth, an event depicted in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Can’t wait to teach that one again this year! It’s also the birthday of Alexandre Dumas fils and the anniversary of the death of Gertrude Stein.

Tomorrow marks the birthday of Beatrix Potter and the anniversary of the death of Cyrano de Bergerac.

Friday is the birthday of novelist Emily Brontë. I hope I can have a review of the novel Emily’s Ghost ready to commemorate that event. Friday also marks the anniversary of the death of British poet Thomas Gray.

Saturday we celebrate the birthdays of J. K. Rowling and her creation, Harry Potter. On July 31, 1703, writer Daniel Defoe was also put in a pillory following a conviction for seditious libel. He was pelted with flowers.

On August 1, 1944, Anne Frank made the last entry in her diary. August 1 is also Herman Melville’s birthday.

Monday August 2 is Caleb Carr‘s birthday and also marks the anniversary of Raymond Carver’s death and William S. Burroughs’s death.


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6 thoughts on “Celebrating Georgette Heyer

  1. I think I probably read every single Georgette Heyer published when I was in high school. The romance, the drama, the clothes, the history, I could not get enough. She and Mary Stewart kept me alive (along with Simon & Garfunkel). She probably had as much to do with me becoming obsessed with British Lit as Shakespeare did. You have me beat though.

    1. I'm glad to hear they're good books! I am really unfamiliar with them. I do love British literature, though!

  2. Thanks for the shout out Dana. I look forward to your review.

    Cheers, Laurel Ann

  3. I was very pleased with my first experience of Georgette Heyer earlier this year. My plan now is to dole out her books to myself slowly, as little fun treats for whenever I am sad. I hope you like Charity Girl! 🙂

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