Interview with Louise Allen, Part II ~ Regency Romance, Heroes, and Thoughts on Writing

Book Giveaway! ~ See details at the end of this post. I welcome again Louise Allen for the second part of my interview about her new book Walks Through Regency London ~ [click here for Part I] JAIV:  Hello again Louise! – now let’s talk about your fiction: I have to make the embarrassing confession that [...]

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Interview: Part I ~ Walking around Regency London with Louise Allen

NOTE:  Book giveaway! ~ see the end of this post for details!  Please welcome author Louise Allen today as she answers questions about her new book on Regency London.  Louise is a very successful writer of historical Regency romances, over thirty-five titles to date!  Her interest in all things Regency is fed by constant research into the period, as [...]

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Book Review ~ ‘Eugenia’ by Clare Darcy

Eugenia by Clare Darcy Walker and Company 1977, Signet 1978 [and other various reprints]  She had never thought a great deal about being in love before, not being romantically inclined and having read very few of the novels over which other young ladies at Miss Bascom’s had shed luxurious tears; but obviously, she thought, it [...]

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Book Review ~ ‘Georgina’ by Clare Darcy

  Georgina, by Clare Darcy.  NY:  Walker and Company, 1971; NY:  Dell, 1977 [and other reprints] *********** The opening scene finds us in a house on Great Pulteney Street in Bath, where a rejected marriage proposal has all the Power family at odds – we quickly see that Miss Georgina Power is not going to [...]

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The Mystery of Clare Darcy

For the past year I have been interspersing my regular reading with a taste of Georgette Heyer – a delightful romp through her Regency romances – not quite done yet [gad! There are so Many! – not to mention the Mysteries and the Historicals…], and I fear as I look back that I am getting [...]

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Some Thoughts on Georgette Heyer’s Heroines

The following is a guest post from one of our JASNA-Vermont members, Janeite Lynne.  After she commented on my post on Georgette Heyer’s ‘Frederica’ , Lynne and I were in touch and discovered that we both seem to be having a parallel summer of reading Heyer! – she sent along the following thoughts on Heyer’s heroines  [...]

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An Austen Tribute ~

I have just finished reading a book – one you might classify as a Regency Romance, but written today [as so many are!] - looks, feels and tastes like Pride & Prejudice all wrapped up in a Georgette Heyer plot of older woman “chaperoning” a young beauty with all the requisite beaus [the poet, the bore, the rake, [...]

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