Georgette Heyer

If anything good can be said to have resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, it is that people once again turned to reading as a past-time, and grown women, falling back on what surely had been a teenage comfort, began to make a big noise about Georgette Heyer (1902-1974). Heyer was a prolific English historical novelist (17th-18th cent.), who always had a loyal following among women, who arguably created the Regency romance genre, and who remained virtually unknown amongst males until possibly even now. She never gave an interview during her lifetime and never came to the attention of the Literati of her time. But the tide has turned; by 2022, Vox had headlined her ("When will Hollywood discover Georgette Heyer?"), public libraries finally noticed that her books were not only still in circulation but often had a waitlist, and there is even a Georgette Heyer podcase.