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| Who said: 'I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.'? | Georgette Heyer Quotes
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Justin Alastair. Justin Alastair, Duke of Avon is talking to Mary Challoner about Dominic Alastair abducting her in 'Devil's Cub.'
Sylvester Rayne. The Duke of Salford talking to his mother about Sir Nugent Fotherby in 'Sylvester.'
| Who said: 'There is a corpse somewhere on the road to town. Mr. Fox does not want it there. Remove it.'? | Georgette Heyer Quotes
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Dominic Alastair. The Marquis of Vidal talking to one of the footmen at Lady Montague's drum about a footpad he shot in 'Devil's Cub.'
Miles O'Hara. Miles O'Hara talking to Jack Carstares in 'The Black Moth.'
| 'My dear young greenhead,'said ---, with a touch of asperity, 'one can discover that a female is a dead bore in less than two hours!' Who is ---? | Georgette Heyer Quotes
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Wilfred Steane. Wilfred Steane to Viscount Desford's younger brother Simon Carrington, about the possiblility of Desford having cast Cherry Steane off in 'Charity Girl'.
| Who said: 'Now tell me, do my eyes deceive me, or is there a suggestion - the merest hint - of a - really, I fear I must call it a bagginess - about the ankle'? | Georgette Heyer Quotes
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| Who said: 'If someone would have the good-sense to inform me whether I am assisting at a tragedy or a farce I should be grateful'? | Georgette Heyer Quotes
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Jack Westruther. Jack Westruther addressing the company just after the arrival of Freddy Standen on the scene when Dolph tried to hide again in 'Cotillion'.
| Who said: 'If you can contrive to come out of what would appear to be a catalepsy, assemble the few wits God gave you and attend to me, I trust I may be able to allay your brotherly anxiety'? | Georgette Heyer Quotes
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Sir Gareth Ludlow. Sir Gareth Ludlow talking to Lady Hester Theale's brother in 'Sprig Muslin'.
| Who said: 'I hesitate to wound you...but the spectacle of a woman of your name, birth, and tradition, cold-bloodedly offering herself to the highest bidder is not one calculated to impress the world with a very strong notion of her pride'? | Georgette Heyer Quotes
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Sir Richard Wyndham. Sir Richard Wyndham to his prospective fiancee in 'The Corinthian'.
| Georgette Heyer used this form of her name for all her books, whether they were detective fiction, thrillers, historical novels or romances, but what was her real name? | Georgette Heyer and Her Books
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She was born Georgette Heyer, and became Mrs Ronald Rougier .. Georgette Heyer was named after her father, George, and she had a brother called Boris. After her marriage to Ronald Rougier, Q.C. she always used "Mrs Rougier" in private life.
Deborah "Deb" Grantham of "Faro's Daughter".. Deb was the one with the ribbons. She was trying to persuade young Lord Adrian Mablethorpe that she was not his kind of wife.
Yes.. Georgette Heyer was at first disconcerted when her son married someone who had been married before, but she and Suzy became very good friends and Heyer referred to her daughter-in-law as "the daughter we never had, and thought we didn't want".
| Which Heyer novel includes the following elements? A very tall hero and heroine, a love-struck highwayman, gold coins. | Georgette Heyer and Her Books
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"The Toll-gate". Captain John Staple and his lady, Nell Stornaway, were both unusually tall, and Nell's maid "the most respectable creature" was in love with a highwayman named Jeremy Chirk.
| Georgette Heyer wrote her first novel, "The Black Moth" while quite young. What was her primary purpose in writing this book? | Georgette Heyer and Her Books
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To amuse her brother, Boris.. Heyer apparently wrote the novel to amuse her brother. Later in life, she appeared to have a love/hate relationship with the romance genre she helped to establish, but at this point she was neither disillusioned nor typecast.
| "Friday's Child" had a hero usually known by an alcoholic name and heroine with an unusual name. What were they called? | Georgette Heyer and Her Books
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Sherry (Viscount Sheringham) and Hero. Hero was named after the girl in the Greek story, but the carelessly friendly Sherry usually called her Kitten. Disappointed in love, Sherry vowed to marry the first female he saw, which turned out to be Hero.
| Georgette Heyer had a "big book" project to which she returned when she had time. She hoped this would make her reputation as a serious novelist. Not a regency, this book was to be set in a period she called "Armour". Parts of it were published after her death. What was the book? | Georgette Heyer and Her Books
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"My Lord John".. Georgette Heyer died with "My Lord John" still unfinished, but her husband had the existing portions published. "Simon the Coldheart" was an early Heyer title; one she wanted suppressed. "The Gauntlet" was by Robert Welch and "Bows Against the Barons" by Geoffrey Trease.
| Sophy Stanton-Lacy is one of Heyer's liveliest heroines. She goes to stay with the Rivenhall family and readjusts their lives. Sophy frequently quotes "Sir Horace" as her mentor. Who is Sir Horace? | Georgette Heyer and Her Books
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Her father.. Sophy respects her father greatly, but she comes unstuck when she tries to organise his indolent fiancee and prevent her from eloping... Sir Horace has changed his mind about the marriage.
Russia. The name was originally Russian. You may be interested to know that there are about 60 entries for "Heyer" in the Australian telephone directory!
She wanted to save her sister Sophia's reputation.. Mary heard that her sister Sophia was planning to run away with Vidal. Dreading the scandal and hoping to save Sophia from ruin, Mary put on a veil and eloped in her sister's place. She hoped this would put Vidal off the whole idea, but instead, he abducted her.
Her husband, Ronald.. Ronald Rougier, Georgette Heyer's husband, was a barrister, and helped her plot her detective novels. She wrote a dozen or so, but they were never as popular as her romances.
Mary Challoner. Mary Challoner shot Lord Vidal to preserve her honour after he abducted her. She told him she wasn't sure if the pistol was loaded. It was.
Jane Aiken Hodge. "The Private World of Georgette Heyer" was by Jane Aiken Hodge, published in 1984.
Phoebe Marlow, of "Sylvester".. Phoebe Marlow had written a novel about a wicked uncle with unusual eyebrows. Unfortunately Sylvester Rayne, Duke of Salford, owned both the eyebrows and a nephew...
| One Heyer heroine was perfectly happy for her rakish love to have orgies after they married. She offered to share them, or else to retire quietly to bed. Who was she and what was her book? | Georgette Heyer and Her Books
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Venetia, from "Venetia".. Venetia Lanyon proposed to Jasper Damerel, suggesting that if he wouldn't marry her she'd build a willow cottage at his gates. It wasn't lack of love that held the couple apart, but Damerel's notion that he was too shopworn to become her husband.
Nicholas (Nick). Throughout the book Nicholas's shipmates refer to him as 'Mad Nick'!
Lavinia or Cordelia. Ninian doesn't get on with his sisters and is particularly angry when his mother brings one of his sisters to Bath with her to coax him home!
Bouncer. Bouncer plays a key part in being very naughty and preventing his master from getting hurt in the process!
Harry, Jessamy, Felix and Charis. Harry is named after his mother (Harriet) and Frederica after her father (Freddie). Felix means happiness in Latin and Charis means Grace in Greek!
Marlow. Phoebe is the only daughter of peer Lord Marlow and lives with him and her stepmother, of whom she is afraid!
Scholes. Scholes is sent to Fontley to prevent Adam from 'picking at his food'!
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