The Early Georgette Heyer Collection by Georgette Heyer

The Early Georgette Heyer Collection by Georgette Heyer

Georgette Heyer single handedly created and popularized the historic and regency romance genre. Heyer's writing is lively, witty, and charming full of vividly realized characters and well researched historic locales. Simply put she had no equal among her contemporaries.

We have gathered Heyer's first four novels and a short story together in this omnibus edition. There are three hundred and fifty thousand words and over nine hundred and fifty pages of fantastically written romance fiction. Included are The Transformation of Philip Jettan, The Black Moth, The Great Roxhythe, Instead of the Thorn, and "A Proposal To Cicely."

Georgette Heyer (1902-1974) was an English writer of historical romance and detective fiction. Born in London, Heyer was raised as the eldest of three children by a distinguished British Army officer and a mother who excelled as a cellist and pianist at the Royal College of Music. Encouraged to read from a young age, she began writing stories at 17 to entertain her brother Boris, who suffered from hemophilia. Impressed by her natural talent, Heyer's father sought publication for her work, eventually helping her to release The Black Moth (1921), a detective novel. Heyer then began publishing her stories in various magazines, establishing herself as a promising young voice in English literature. Following her father's death, Heyer became responsible for the care of her brothers and shortly thereafter married mining engineer George Ronald Rougier. In 1926, Heyer publisher her second novel, These Old Shades, a work of historical romance. Over the next several decades, she published consistently and frequently, excelling with romance and detective stories and establishing herself as a bestselling author.