The classic biography of Georgette Heyer is, finally, back in print and will delight Heyer fans everywhere. Lavishly illustrated, and with extracts from her correspondence and references to her work, The Private World reveals a formidable and energetic woman with an impeccable sense of style and above all, a love for all things Regency.

ThePrivate World of Georgette Heyer by Hodge, Jane Aiken ( Author ) ON Apr-06-2006, Paperback

HODGE, JANE AIKEN

Cornerstone

Secretly engaged to her handsome tutor, now on a world tour, Kathryn of Windover Hall finds herself abandoned at Windover with her ailing mother and domineering stepfather when her lover fails to return from his journey.

Windover

Literature & Fiction

United States

St Martins Pr

Seventeen-year-old Charlotte Comyn rejects the marriage proposal of her childhood companion, John Thornton, in favor of an exciting venture to Italy, where she finds a wealth of experience and the promise of true love

Escapade

Genre Fiction

When teenage Caterina Gomez returns from England to Portugal, she comes back to a beloved homeland, a distant father, and a scandalous past. Traveling with Caterina are her cousin Jeremy Craddock, a young Englishman seeking a cure for his ill health, and her dear friend Harriet Brown, who is on the run from an arranged marriage. This unlikely trio arrives ian a Portugal rife with tension, for the country is at war with France, and Oporto, recently liberated, is a city in ruins and full of bitter memories. Caterina's hopes for happiness are initially frustrated, for her father seems determined to see her married or in a convent. Then the note arrives, a voice from the past that changes everything and send Caterina into the center of political and romantic intrigue. Drawn into the tangled web that binds the Portuguese and English communities together in an uneasy alliance, she discovers that no one is quite what he seems. Characterized by Jane Aiken Hodge's trademark blend of historical detail and adventure, Whispering tells the story of a young woman's search for truth and independence in a society that wants to deny her both.

Whispering

St.Martin's Press

Caterina Fonsa, the heroine of Whispering, returns twenty years later to confront the political intrigue and social turmoil following Napoleon's 1807 invasion of Portugal and to deal with dark secrets from the past that have returned to haunt her. 10,000 first printing.

Caterina

British & Irish

When teenage Caterina Gomez returns from England to Portugal, she comes back to a beloved homeland, a distant father, and a scandalous past. Traveling with Caterina are her cousin Jeremy Craddock, a young Englishman seeking a cure for his ill health, and her dear friend Harriet Brown, who is on the run from an arranged marriage. This unlikely trio arrives ian a Portugal rife with tension, for the country is at war with France, and Oporto, recently liberated, is a city in ruins and full of bitter memories. Caterina's hopes for happiness are initially frustrated, for her father seems determined to see her married or in a convent. Then the note arrives, a voice from the past that changes everything and send Caterina into the center of political and romantic intrigue. Drawn into the tangled web that binds the Portuguese and English communities together in an uneasy alliance, she discovers that no one is quite what he seems. Characterized by Jane Aiken Hodge's trademark blend of historical detail and adventure, Whispering tells the story of a young woman's search for truth and independence in a society that wants to deny her both.

St. Martin's: Griffin

The classic biography of Georgette Heyer is, finally, back in print and will delight Heyer fans everywhere. Lavishly illustrated, and with extracts from her correspondence and references to her work, The Private World reveals a formidable and energetic woman with an impeccable sense of style and above all, a love for all things Regency.

The Private World of Georgette Heyer

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Pan/Macmillan

Here Comes a Candle

Doubleday Company, Inc.

Marry in Haste

Camilla Forest finds herself alone on a muddy road, left to fend for herself, when the carriage of Lord Leominster pulls up alongside. This sets off an agreement to a marriage of convenience with Camilla and Lavenham, the Lord. They move to Portugal, along with his sister, Chloe. Camilla finds herself falling in love with her husband. But will her French brother ruin everything? Jane Aiken Hodge was born in the USA, brought up in the UK and read English at Oxford. She received a master's degree from Radcliffe College, Harvard University. Before her books became her living she worked as a civil servant, journalist, publishers' reader and a reviewer. She has written lives of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer as well as a book about women in the Regency period, Passion and Principle. But her main output has been over twenty historical novels set in the eighteenth century, including Polonaise, The Lost Garden, and Savannah Purchase, the beloved third volume of a trilogy set during and after the American War of Independence. More recently she has written novels for Severn House Publishers. She enjoys the borderland between mystery and novel, is pleased to be classed as a feminist writer, and is glad that there is neither a glass ceiling nor a retiring age in the writers' world. She was the daughter of Conrad Aiken and sister of Joan Aiken.

Marry in haste

Hodder&Stoughton

Savannah Purchase

‘Madly readable’ - Sunday Telegraph   Cousins who might be twins, Juliet and Josephine, are separated by the Battle of Waterloo, only to meet again, four years later, on a desolate bluff by the Savannah River.     Both are orphans now, but Juliet is penniless, while Josephine has made a marriage of convenience with a rich Savannah planter.   Each in her own way is desperate, and when Josephine proposes that Juliet play, once more, their childhood game of impersonation, she is driven to agree.   She takes her cousin's place, deceiving even her estranged husband, while Josephine tries a mad gamble to rescue Napoleon from St. Helena.  Plunged into the social whirl of Savannah, and on the great plantation of Winchelsea, Juliet finds the stakes higher than she had realised, and learns all too soon just how little Josephine has told her…  Beset by strangers who may be friends, enemies, or even lovers, she is compelled to play out the dangerous masquerade...   Honour and life itself are at stake, and not just her own.    Entertaining her guests in the great house in Oglethorpe Square, or dancing with the President of the United States, she is aware, always, of disaster looming for them all…                   Jane Aiken Hodge (December 4, 1917 – June 17, 2009) was an American-born British writer. Her novels include Runaway Bride, Escapade and One Way to Venice.

Contemporary

Hodder and Stoughton

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ThePrivate World of Georgette Heyer by Hodge, Jane Aiken ( Author ) ON Apr-06-2006, Paperback

Windover

Escapade

Whispering

Caterina

Whispering

The Private World of Georgette Heyer

Here Comes a Candle

Marry in haste

Savannah Purchase