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Georgette Heyer ONLY book club...

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LadyDamerel · 11/04/2012 22:28

...could we start one?

I know there are loads of GH fans on here, so what do you think?

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DedalusDigglesPocketWatch · 13/04/2012 07:39
Alibabaandthe40nappies · 13/04/2012 07:30

Please may I join? I adore GH.

I have a kindle so I can buy them all.

My favourites are Venetia, Regency Buck and A Civil Contract.

WyrdMother · 13/04/2012 07:29

Georgette Heyer Book Club, yes please.

Cousin Kate sounds good, I've just found a mint 1968 hardback copy in a charity shop, looks like it's never been read and that's just criminal.

Though I will be reading it very carefully and not in the bath as I usually do Grin.

Auntiestablishment · 13/04/2012 07:18

Tis my millionth (approx) re-read. Have them all, plus most of her Detective ones.

The new biography is most definitely worth reading: loads and loads of new material (as compared with Jane Aiken Hodge, who wrote the most fantastic biog but on very slender material). My only real problem was almost the opposite of the poster above: there were a number of assertions made about Heyer for which no supporting evidence was presented (mostly about sexual matters). Jennifer Kloester is a Massive Fan, though, and I heard her enthuse at the GH conference in Cambridge a couple of years ago.

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LadyDamerel · 13/04/2012 00:26

Bath Tangle, Ree. I re-read it a couple of nights ago.

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ReeBee · 13/04/2012 00:25

May I join too please? I've loved GH all my life, even have a few first editions as well as very tatty paperbacks. Agree with everything Willow said about characters, love GH's wit and attention to detail.

My favourites change as I get older. Devil's Cub is definitely top 3 still. And Frederica. And maybe the Unknown Ajax.

And which one had Serena in it? And Rotherham?

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LadyDamerel · 13/04/2012 00:00

Ooh, that looks like a great place, IShall. I will add it to the itinerary of my Grand Tour Darn Sarf.

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IShallWearMidnight · 12/04/2012 23:54

found it Anne of Cleves house in Lewes.

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LadyDamerel · 12/04/2012 23:43

You certainly can, Willow Smile.

Who wants to suggests a book we can begin with?

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LadyDamerel · 12/04/2012 23:41

Sussex, you say? So it could be combined with a trip to Brighton Pavillion?

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WillowInGloves · 12/04/2012 23:41

Oh, hello, please can I join in, whatever you decide to do?? I adore GH and have done for years. Have re-read everything countless times. She is most satisfying because of the different types of heroes - whether you're in the mood for dark and saturnine and cynical, or elegant and witty, you can just pick your book. Similarly with heroines - mature and intelligent, young and reckless ... and she is so funny and her language is wonderful and her history, so I gather, is spot on ...
I could go on - but I need a comfort read right now so I'm going to head off downstairs and pull one off the shelf!
Thank you so much for the inspiration!

IShallWearMidnight · 12/04/2012 23:39

LadyD - no grown up dressing up, but... there is somewhere that has not regency as such, but certainly long swishy dresses, and I can't for the life of me remember where! It's somewhere in Sussex, in a town, a small cottage museum, and there's lots of dressing up stuff. I'll have a think and see if I can find the photos which might trigger the name of the place..

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LadyDamerel · 12/04/2012 23:37

Tatton Park (and Dunham Massey but not as much) in Cheshire is a fantastic place to wander and imagine oneself as a heroine in a GH novel too.

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IShallWearMidnight · 12/04/2012 23:36

the best bit about he Jane Austen Cetre talk was getting to see the clothes in the museum, and going all eek-ey at the fact you could see the hand sewing, much to the Confusedment of the large group of American visitors Grin.

Haven't been to the Costume Museum for a good few years (the one in the Assembly rooms?) as almost everytime I try to visit, the Assembly rooms are closed for a private function Sad.

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LadyDamerel · 12/04/2012 23:33

What about costumes for the grown-ups? Blush

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IShallWearMidnight · 12/04/2012 23:32

ooh, while I remember, anyone in the Birmingham area - Aston Hall has some lovely DC Regency dressing up stuff. Sadly we didn't have long enough for DD3 to try it all on, so I only have photos of one outfit, but there were several different outfits which looked reasonably authentic.

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LadyDamerel · 12/04/2012 23:27

I didn't see that IShall. John Torode makes me stabby so I avoid it Grin.

Can we all dress up for the MN Bath Meet-up? I fancy parading around Laura place in figured muslin, a pelise and a poke fronted bonnet.

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LadyDamerel · 12/04/2012 23:25

The Supersize Georgian/Regency episode with Sue Perkins and Giles Coren had them eating the most disgusting things. I don't think even the best french chef could persuade me to eat cod's head.

Envy
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lazymonkeyface · 12/04/2012 23:22

Beaumaris - damn phone

IShallWearMidnight · 12/04/2012 23:22

I was wondering about the Jane Austen festival actually, but then it was on Masterchef, and they all seemed very weird. Maybe a MN day out?

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LadyDamerel · 12/04/2012 23:20

IShall Envy. I want to go back to Bath and do a GH tour. Apparently the Jane Austen festival in Sept/Oct time is attended by a lot of GH fans too.

Hullo Venetia, there's a LadyVenetia around somewhere too, poor Jasper must be exhausted with such a harem Grin.

I forgot about Hugo - I do like him too, and Gareth, and Phillip, and Marcus, and Gervase, and the Duke of Avon (she says hurriedly, so as not to offend Leonie), and Vidal, and oh just all of them really. She hasn't written a bad hero in any of the ones I've read so far.

My thought was to do one book at a time so as not to go off on (too many) tangents.

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lazymonkeyface · 12/04/2012 23:19

Ooo I love GH and id be up for a group :-D

I love Arabella. Mr Beaumont is wonderful, but I also love Sylvester, something about the way his eyebrows were described. My dh has dark thick eyebrows and I met him after reading the book... No real link im sure! ;)

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